ALEXANDRIA, VA—George Golder Phillips
II, 33, of Culpeper, Virginia, was sentenced to 619 months in prison today for
committing a series of armed robberies of financial institutions and businesses
and kidnapping and carjacking a woman.
Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney
for the Eastern District of Virginia; Ken Cuccinelli, II, Attorney General of
Virginia; and James McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI
Washington Field Office, made the announcement after Phillips was sentenced
today by United States District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee.
According to court records, in 2008
through 2009, Phillips—often armed with a firearm—robbed more than $87,000 from
six financial institutions and three businesses in Virginia. In addition,
Phillips admitted that on September 17, 2009, he approached a woman in Prince
William County, Virginia, brandished a firearm, and forced her into her car.
With the victim sitting blindfolded in the passenger seat, Phillips drove the
car from Virginia and across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge into Maryland, where he
crashed the car into another car and fled on foot.
Phillips is already serving two state
sentences for other offenses: 20 years in prison for the attempted murder and
malicious wounding of two sheriff’s deputies in Fauquier County, Virginia, and
40 years in prison for a murder in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. The court
ordered that his federal sentence should be served consecutive to the state
sentences.
The investigation was conducted by FBI’s
Washington Field Office jointly with the Virginia State Police; Fauquier
County, Orange County, and Frederick County Sheriff’s Offices; and Prince
William County and Front Royal Police Departments. Assistant U.S. Attorney
Jonathan Fahey and Virginia Assistant Attorney General and Special Assistant
United States Attorney Marc Birnbaum are prosecuting the case on behalf of the
United States.
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