BANGOR, Maine: A Bangor, Maine, man was sentenced on Friday, October 6 in U.S. District Court in Bangor for bank robbery and possession of a firearm by a felon.
U.S. District Judge Lance E. Walker sentenced Donald Turner, 52, to 210 months in prison and a consecutive 24-month sentence for violating his supervised release in a separate docket. Following incarceration, Turner will be on supervised release for five years.
According to court records, Turner entered Bangor Savings Bank in Bangor on September 10, 2020 and handed a bank teller a note indicating his intent to rob the bank, that he had a firearm, and ordering the teller not to speak to anyone. After the bank teller gave Turner money, he walked out of the bank. Law enforcement responded to the bank and obtained surveillance videos. Several surveillance images were sent to local media, leading to multiple citizens to contact law enforcement and identify Turner as the robber. Law enforcement located Turner at an apartment in Bangor, and at the time of his arrest, Turner had a firearm in the front waistband of his pants. Turner admitted he had robbed the bank but denied having the gun with him during the robbery.
At the time he committed this bank robbery, Turner was on supervised release for a 2011 conviction for bank robbery. Turner has two previous convictions for bank robberies he committed in 2006.
The Federal Bureau of Investigations, the Bangor Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives investigated the case.
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