ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) – On Friday, January 10, the US Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Virginia announced a Roanoke man indicted for allegedly robbing multiple Truist Banks in 2022 made his first federal court appearance.
According to court records, 67-year-old Michael Anthony McCoy of Roanoke is accused of entering a Truist Bank on NW Melrose Ave in Roanoke and handing a threatening note to a bank teller. McCoy then allegedly approached a second teller and brandished a firearm.
Dawn Davis allegedly wrote the threatening note at McCoy’s direction. McCoy and Davis then left with around $6,485 from the Truist Bank.
Court records said that McCoy allegedly stole $6,000 from another Truist Bank two days later.
McCoy was then arrested late in 2024 in Newport News, Virginia, on unrelated charges. A federal grand jury in Roanoke has indicted him on one count of conspiracy to commit bank robbery, two counts of bank robbery (one of which includes the use of a dangerous weapon), and one count of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
Davis previously pled guilty to related charges, according to the US Attorney’s Office.
The FBI is investigating the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Scheff and Special Assistant United States Attorney John Beamer, an Assistant Attorney General with the Virginia Attorney General’s Major Crimes and Emerging Threats Section, are prosecuting the case.