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January 23, 2007

Forrest James Williams and Lana Lenee Creager were arraigned today for bank robbery

Forrest James Williams and Lana Lenee Creager were arraigned today in federal court in San Diego by United States Magistrate Judge Jan M. Adler on an indictment charging them jointly with bank robbery and mail theft, and charging Creager with an additional bank robbery. Williams and Creager entered pleas of not guilty to the charges.

According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Eugene S. Litvinoff, who is prosecuting the case, Williams and Creager were apprehended by the San Diego Police Department on January 5, 2007, in the Pacific Beach area of San Diego, California, on suspicion of stealing an entire pushcart full of U.S. mail from a postal carrier. At the time of the arrest, San Diego Police officers recognized Creager from a Wanted Poster taken from surveillance photos of a bank robbery which occurred on December 9, 2006. Both Williams and Creager have been charged in the indictment with mail theft and with robbing the Wells Fargo Bank, at 4315 Mission Boulevard, San Diego, California, from which they obtained $2,369 on December 9, 2006. Creager also has been charged with robbing the same bank and obtaining $250 on December 18, 2006.

Williams and Creager are scheduled to appear in court on February 5, 2007, at 9:00 a.m., before United States District Court Judge Thomas J. Whelan for a motion setting hearing.

DEFENDANTS FORREST JAMES WILLIAMS LANA LENEE CREAGER

Case Number: 07cr0136W Counts 1 and 3 Counts 1 - 3

SUMMARY OF CHARGES Counts: Three Counts 1 and 2
Bank Robbery - Title18, United States Code, Section 2113(a)
Penalties: Maximum twenty years’ imprisonment. Maximum $250,000 fine. Mandatory restitution of the
value of property not returned (18 U.S.C. § 3663A).

Count 3
Mail Theft - Title 18, United States Code, Section 1708
Penalties: Maximum five years in custody. Maximum $250,000 fine. Mandatory restitution of the value of
property not returned (18 U.S.C. § 3663A).

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