A 44-year-old District man and his 25-year-old nephew from Clinton have been accused of robbing four banks in the D.C. suburbs over the past year, along with a Dunkin Donuts location.
Investigators were led to Reginald Arnold Waddell and his nephew Jurome Riley Proctor by fingerprints they left behind in and around the Arlington Dunkin’ Donuts, which they allegedly robbed May 18, according to court documents filed in Alexandria’s federal court.
Waddell’s print was found on a used car at a lot across the street from the Dunkin’ Donuts, an FBI agent wrote in a sworn statement. Waddell touched the car while describing to a mechanic problems with his own car.
Proctor’s print was found on the cash register he pulled the hands of a Dunkin’ Donuts cashier as Waddell waived a gun in her face, the statement said. The two robbers made off with $275.
Proctor was arrested May 28. When Arlington County police searched his impounded car, according to the agent, they found a note that read, “Don’t [expletive] with me, I am armed! Give me your whole drawer I want $100 stacks or I will kill you!”
Six months earlier, a TD Bank at 6615 Richmond Highway in Alexandria was robbed of $1,237 by a black male who left behind a note that read: “I am armed, Give me ur Drawer And $100 stacks. No blow up money or I will come back and kill u,” court documents said. In the upper right-hand corner, the robber added, “I know where u Live! What car u drive.”
Noticing the similarity of the notes, Fairfax County police questioned Proctor on June 11. He reportedly admitted to robbing the Dunkin’ Donuts, the TD Bank and four others, the statement said. Proctor said Waddle participated in all six, brandishing the gun at the donut shop and driving the getaway car at the bank robberies.
Proctor said Waddell wrote the TD Bank note, but he added the message at the top because it sounded “harder,” the agent wrote.
The demand notes used at the other robberies were also similar, according to court documents. They almost all demanded cash in stacks. The notes threatened harm if “blow up” money was used, referring to cash bundles that are packed with exploding dye or smoke cartridges.
