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Three Siblings Commit Armed Bank Robbery in Valdosta

August 5, 2011 Uncategorized Comments Off

Submitted by FBI Atlanta

Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Lamkin, in conjunction with Police Chief Charles F. Simons, Valdosta Police Department, provides the following information concerning the August 2, 2011 armed robbery of the Certus Bank, located at 460 Norman Drive, Valdosta, Georgia:

On 08/04/2011, the United States Magistrate, Middle District of Georgia, Macon, Georgia, issued warrants for the arrest of Ryan Edward Dougherty, Stanley Dylan Dougherty, and Grace Lee E. Dougherty for the crime of armed bank robbery, a violation of Title 18, Section 2113 (a) and (d).

These subjects should be considered armed and dangerous.

These individuals were last seen operating a 2006 white, four-door Subaru Impreza bearing New York license tag FBE 5900.

On August 2, 2011 at approximately 12:24 p.m., the Valdosta Police Department along with the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office and the Remerton Police Department, responded to an armed robbery at Certus Bank, 460 Norman Drive. Officers arrived on scene and were advised that three individuals, dressed in black with masks, entered the bank through the front entrance. The suspects are believed to be two white males and one white female. As the robbers entered the bank, shots were fired towards the ceiling and everyone in the bank was instructed to get down. At least two of the robbers brandished weapons, one described as being an AK-47 type assault rifle and the other appearing to be a machine pistol, while other robber obtained an undisclosed amount of money. All three robbers then departed the bank and were observed departing in an older model, white, four-door sedan. Detectives from the Valdosta Police Department, Crime Scene Technicians from the Valdosta-Lowndes County Crime Laboratory, and the FBI responded to the scene to investigate.

It should be noted that these individuals are also suspects in the attempted murder of a Zephyrhills, Florida police officer earlier that same day. On August 2, 2011, at 7:00 a.m., a patrol officer for that department was in pursuit of a four-door white vehicle. The suspects in the vehicle began to shoot at the patrol officer and subsequently disabled the patrol vehicle. Multiple calibers were used in that shooting. The suspect vehicle was described as being a 2006 white Subaru Impreza, New York license plate FBE5900.

The subjects, all siblings, are described as follows:

Name: Ryan Edward Dougherty, white male, age 21, 5’10” in height, 180 lbs., brown hair, brown eyes.

Name: Dylan Dougherty Stanley, white male, age 26, 6’1” in height, 185 lbs., brown hair, blue eyes.

Name: Lee Grace E. Dougherty, white female, age 29, 5’4” in height, 120 lbs., brown hair, brown eyes.

Anyone having any further information regarding this matter should contact the FBI at (404) 679-9000 or the Valdosta Police Department at 229-293-3145, or you can remain anonymous by calling 229-293-3091.

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Gorelick

March 29, 2011 Editorials Comments Off

National  Security
Joe Boyles
Guest Columnist

After 10 years of service as the nation’s top cop, FBI Director Robert Mueller recently announced that he is stepping down.  The Washington rumor mill suggests that President Obama is considering the appointment of Jamie S. Gorelick to the post.  I don’t think he’ll do it and here’s why:
Jamie Gorelick played a principal role in the two greatest national security disasters our nation has faced since World War II, both of which cost us trillions.  During the Clinton Administration, she became the Assistant Attorney General under Janet Reno in 1994.  The next year, she published a memo that created a wall of separation between law enforcement and intelligence gathering that became known in the Justice Department as the “Gorelick Wall.”
The theory behind the Gorelick Wall was that terrorism was a law enforcement issue and we did not want to risk spoiling evidence that could be used during prosecution by sharing intelligence between agencies.  Gorelick was thinking like a prosecutor.  She was not thinking like someone trying to prevent an attack on our country and its citizens.
Six years later, that attack happened on September 11, 2001.  It was the worst in our nation’s history and resulted in the deaths of more than 3,000 innocents.
The best opportunity to thwart the attack before it actually occurred was with the August detention of the so-called 20th hijacker, Zacharius Moussaoui in Minneapolis by the FBI.  Agents wanted to question Moussaou, and crack open his laptop computer, but headquarters refused to allow this, citing the Gorelick Wall and concern that his prosecution would be compromised by privacy and due process issues.  One of the frustrated agents complained that “someday, someone will die” because of this policy.  In less than two weeks, “someday” happened and 3, 000 “someones” perished.
But by this time, Jamie Gorelick was no longer around the Justice Department.  She had left her “time bomb” behind and was now vice president of the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), also known as Fannie Mae.  Fannie Mae is a government sponsored enterprise (GSE).  As a place where private and public money mix, it has long been used by politicians to pay off political debts.  Impoverished public servants like Jamie Gorelick can line their pockets at a place like Fannie Mae, and she did.

From 1997 to 2003, Gorelick was paid more than $26 million.  That was a lot more lucrative than her previous six years in the Clinton Administration.
Not only was she paid a lot of money for her FNMA tenure, but she also helped “cook the books.”  When normal accounting rules would have recorded losses and resulted in withheld bonuses to executives, creative accounting was used to shift losses to other years, enabling fat cats like Gorelick to walk away with big bonuses.  As Gorelick was leaving Fannie Mae, these accounting errors were uncovered and resulted in a major scandal and subsequent restatement going back three years.
You might ask what qualifications Gorelick had for the appointment as VP for Fannie Mae and the answer would be “nothing.”  She was a lawyer with no background or experience in banking or mortgage lending.  Maybe that’s why she had no compunction against moving Fannie into the subprime loan business with securitized financial instruments.  Let’s call that “time bomb 2.”  When this financial mess blew up in the fall of 2008 and resulted in the worst financial disaster since the Great Depression, Jamie had moved on.
The reason why I believe someone other than Gorelick will be selected to head the FBI is that her confirmation hearing before the Senate would result in very embarrassing questions on both of these matters … and others.  Although the Democrats control the Senate and Judiciary Committee, they would be unable to shield her from very pointed questions coming from Republicans who believe that neither of these matters were properly exposed and investigated.  The confirmation hearings would likely prove very embarrassing, not only to Gorelick, but to Democrats in general.
I believe that Jamie Gorelick made some monumental errors for which she has never been held accountable.  For this reason, I feel she is unqualified to be the top law enforcement officer in our country.  I doubt if she can be confirmed and if Obama tries, the process will be so bloody that he’ll decide to avoid it.

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