BALTIMORE, MD—A previously convicted bank robber from Baltimore has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for three new armed bank robberies that he committed while he was on parole.

According to prosecutors, 55-year-old Kevin Maurice Lawson, of Baltimore, had been convicted of armed bank robbery in 2004 and sentenced to federal prison. Lawson committed all three robberies in 2022 while he was in a residential reentry program serving the remainder of his federal sentence.

During the first robbery on June 6, 2022, Lawson went into a bank on East Baltimore Street wearing a surgical mask and gloves, approached an employee at a desk, pulled out a dark semiautomatic handgun and demanded money. The employee gave Lawson cash. He then fled on foot.

On June 27, 2022, Lawson went into another bank on Harford Road and approached two employees at desks, pulled out a handgun and ordered them to the teller line. He then demanded cash from the first employee. The first employee gave Lawson cash. Lawson then fled on foot.

On July 18, 2022, Lawson went into a bank on West North Avenue and ambushed a security guard. Lawson repeatedly struck her on her head with his weapon as he ordered bank employees to provide him with cash. A bank employee behind the teller line tried to get money out of the building but Lawson threatened to shoot her. When Lawson went to the counter to get the money, the security guard fired rounds from her duty weapon at Lawson before the weapon jammed. Lawson then ran away from the scene.

After the shooting, police located the vehicle Lawson had fled in after it crashed into the exterior wall of a vacant rowhome. The car had Lawson’s gloves and clothes that were the same ones he wore in the three robberies. They also found documents that linked Lawson to the crimes.

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