Serial bank robber and accomplices captured
The Mesa Police Department booked barricaded
subject and serial bank robber, Derek Kyle Nance,
29, on Monday, April 21, 2008.
Police have linked Nance to a total of five bank
robberies that occurred from March 27, 2008 to April
11, 2008 across the East Valley. In all of the bank
robberies committed by Nance, he would enter the
bank and pass a demand note to the teller.
Nance was captured by Mesa Police last Wednesday,
April 16, after he committed two bank robberies,
each within a brief time period. Nance also
car-jacked a vehicle and barricaded himself inside
an East Mesa home for several hours. While in the
residence, Nance removed his clothing and took
several prescription pills that were in the home.
In addition, defendants Christopher Lewis Ashe,
18, and Michael Lee Prescott, 18, were arrested and
booked for robbery. Ashe, Prescott and two female
juveniles accompanied Nance to the banks where the
robberies were committed last Wednesday. Ashe and
Prescott told police Nance informed them he needed
to pick up money from a friend at a bank. When they
drove Nance to a Compass Bank in Mesa, Nance asked
Ashe, who was the driver of the vehicle, to park in
the back of the bank. Nance further stated he was
going to rob the bank and "it might get a little
wild." After Nance committed the robbery, Ashe drove
him to a Bank of America in Mesa. Ashe stated Nance
put on a hat, sunglasses, and a button-up shirt,
then walked into the bank and committed the robbery.
A short time later, Ashe and Prescott were detained
in the Bank of America parking lot by police.
A team effort by all the involved East Valley
cities has led to the culmination of Nance's robbery
spree.
