A federal grand jury indicted a District of Columbia man on two counts of bank robbery after police say he left behind a business card during a recent heist.
Jerome Marshall Carter, 58, has been charged with two bank robberies and is a suspect in at least seven others, according to court documents.
Authorities believe he’s stolen tens of thousands of dollars in the last 10 months.
On July 16, Carter walked into the Citibank in Adams Morgan, told the bank teller he had a gun and walked away with $2,880, according to a federal grand jury indictment filed Monday.
Afterward, detectives recovered a business card left on the counter where the suspect waited before an available teller opened.
Investigators showed bank surveillance photographs to the business named on the card.
The proprietor identified the person in the photo as a client named Jerome Carter, according to court documents.
Two days after one bank robbery, Carter used proceeds to buy a 1999 Chevy Tahoe for $7,500, paying in cash, the court documents said.
Authorities arrested Carter and charged him with the Adams Morgan heist and a robbery at SunTrust Bank, 965 L’Enfant Plaza SW, in which $11,200 was stolen.
He was also identified by a supervisor in the Court Services and Offender Supervisory Agency from a wanted poster. The supervisor notified theFBI and D.C. police.
Carter also is suspected of participating in at least nine other bank robberies in Washington between November 2006 and July 2007, according to court documents.
