A 41-year-old Virginia Beach man pleaded guilty Tuesday to the armed robbery of a credit union in Pennsylvania.
Marquis Larosa Buckley is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 3 – he faces 20 years in prison.
According to court documents, in August 2017, Buckley robbed the SPE Federal Credit Union in State College, Pennsylvania.
A few months later in October 2017, Buckley robbed a Fulton Bank and a PNC bank in Virginia Beach.
Upon his arrest, Buckley admitted to Virginia Beach Police that he committed the armed robberies of the two banks in Virginia Beach and also told them about the robbery of the credit union in Pennsylvania, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Buckley previously pleaded guilty to the two bank robberies in Virginia Beach, and then testified against his accomplice at trial resulting in the conviction of the co-conspirator, prosecutors said.
