Sherman Edward Lester Jr., a person from Tucson, has been sentenced to greater than 12 years in jail for robbing a GECU financial institution in East El Paso in September 2022, in accordance with courtroom paperwork obtained by El Diario de El Paso. Lester was sentenced on May 8 to 150 months in jail for the theft on the credit score union department positioned at 10425 Vista del Sol Drive.
After his conviction, Lester will spend three years in jail, with the courtroom recommending that he serve his sentence in a jail close to Tucson or in Phoenix, Arizona. Surveillance video of the financial institution theft captured Lester carrying a gun and donning a tactical plate service as he locked the financial institution doorways with a bicycle lock.
During the theft, Lester pointed a gun at workers, demanded cash, hit a buyer within the head with the gun, and fired a bullet into the client’s toes. He additionally fired extra bullets into the ATM and threatened to hurt workers and prospects till the police arrived.
Lester managed to flee the scene with $10,850 in stolen cash, however he was later caught as a result of proof left behind, together with leaf blowers and shell casings. Witnesses reported seeing Lester utilizing a leaf blower, and authorities traced it again to his dwelling in Tucson, the place he had performed reconnaissance work earlier than the theft.
Additionally, Lester tried to rob a US Bank department inside a Safeway grocery retailer in Tucson simply days after the El Paso theft. Forensic evaluation linked Lester to each crime scenes via 9mm bullet casings, resulting in his arrest in November 2022.