Hammon Bank Robber Sentenced

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April 4, 2023

By News Director Jared Atha

A Clinton man was sentenced last week after being found guilty of robbing a Hammon bank in the summer of 2020.

According to the U.S. District Attorney’s office in Oklahoma City, 44-year-old Ronald Deyoung Allen was linked to the crime after being arrested in Snyder following a crash.

In February 2021, after being involved in the wreck, authorities discovered that he was illegally in possession of a firearm due to him being a convicted felon. After the arrest, FBI officials collected his DNA and compared it to a tissue found at the bank robbery, which came back as a match.

On March 29, Allen was sentenced to serve 188 months on the bank robbery, and 100 months on the possession of a gun following a felony conviction. Those sentences are set to run consecutively, along with a separate bank robbery conviction from Oklahoma County in 2021.

Officials say Allen, while dressed as a woman, would rob the Security State Bank in Hammon in July of 2020. During the robbery, Allen would drop a tissue which was collected by the FBI and sent in for DNA testing.

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