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Hayden man admits to North Idaho hatchet job |
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April 27, 2017 |
Charles Ray Bartkowiak, 34, Hayden, plead guilty
Tuesday to bank robbery, Acting U.S. Attorney
Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr. announced. Bartkowiak
was indicted by a federal grand jury in Coeur
d’Alene December 13, 2016.
According to the plea agreement, Bartkowkiak
admitted that on November 28, 2016, he entered
the Bank CdA in Hayden and placed a hatchet on
the counter of the teller window.
He demanded all the teller’s cash and left with
$6,366 in U.S. currency. Bartkowiak was
identified from video surveillance and law
enforcement found some of the money and the
hatchet in his car.
He admitted to the crime and was arrested.
The charge of bank robbery is punishable by up
to 20 years in prison, a maximum fine of
$250,000, and up to three years of supervised
release.
Sentencing is set for July 26 before U.S.
District Judge Edward J. Lodge at the federal
courthouse in Coeur d’Alene.
The case was investigated by North Idaho Violent
Crimes Task Force, which is comprised of
federal, state and local agencies, including the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Idaho State
Police, Post Falls Police Department, Coeur
d’Alene Police Department, Kootenai County
Sheriff’s Office and the Idaho Department of
Corrections. |
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