Kansas Man Pleads Guilty to Holding Up St. Paul Park Bank

A 27-year-old Kansas man pleaded guilty today in federal court to robbing an Anchor Bank in St. Paul Park on May 29.

Christopher Shane Green, Junction City, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery. He entered his plea on Aug. 7 in St. Paul before United States District Court Judge Richard Kyle. Green was indicted on June 17.

According to Green’s plea agreement, he admitted taking $21,774 from the bank, located at 1030 Hastings Ave.

According to a Federal Bureau of Investigation affidavit, at 9:40 a.m. the bank was robbed by a man wearing a black mask and green camouflage Army fatigues. The robber, later identified as Green, walked up to a teller and stated, “Give me the money and everyone can go home.” He then took the money out of the drawers of one teller station and had the other tellers give him their money.

Green asked where the bank’s vault was, and after he was told that the bank tellers could not open the vault, he ran out of the bank.

A bank employee looked out the window, saw Green drive out of the parking lot and wrote down a partial out-of-state license plate number. A Cottage Grove police officer spotted the vehicle in question and a pursuit ensued involving multiple law enforcement agencies. The pursuit ended in a multi-vehicle crash in Woodbury at the intersection of Valley Creek Road and Radio Drive. Green, who was wearing green camouflage Army fatigues, was arrested at the scene.

Green faces a potential maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. Judge Kyle will determine Green’s sentence at a future date. This case is the result of an investigation by the FBI, the St. Paul Park Police Department, the Cottage Grove Police Department, the Woodbury Police Department, the Newport Police Department and the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. It is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kimberly A. Svendsen.

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