A serial bank robber has been convicted in Miami, with the jury delivering a guilty verdict to Luis Ramirez Gonzalez for two armed robberies that rattled the local community last year. The U.S Attorney's Office detailed the crimes which took place at Interamerican Bank and TD Bank branches in November and December of 2023.
Ramirez Gonzalez, 37, disguised in an Amazon vest and a Halloween mask resembling an aged face first struck on Nov. 29, making off with cash from tellers at the Interamerican Bank's Kendall branch, his audacious spree continuing with a similar heist at a TD Bank in Palmetto Bay where he wore a porcelain doll mask with "God" scrawled across the forehead, the same man was found to have terrorized a pregnant bank teller by pointing a BB gun at her, demanding cash and seeking, though failing to gain, access to the bank vaults in both incidents, as stated in the U.S. Attorney's Office website.
Following a volatile car chase initiated by the tracking of stolen cash embedded with GPS trackers, authorities captured Ramirez Gonzalez after he fled on foot for nearly two hours; in a canal behind a string of backyards, a black bag was discovered, it contained the "God" mask, the BB gun, and the exact sum of money including the planted trackers he had stolen from the TD Bank, according in the U.S. Attorney's Office website.
Ramirez Gonzalez faces a possibility of up to 25 years in prison for each robbery count at his sentencing set for October 25, as announced by the U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom. Beyond the guidelines, various statutory factors will shape the final sentence, the trial, investigated by the FBI, receiving significant support from the Miami-Dade Police Department; Special Agent Jeffrey B. Veltri, of the FBI Miami Field Office.
