Christopher Lyons faces sentencing in March.
A Brentwood Borough man pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to a 2011 bank robbery at a Giant Eagle in Moon Township. Christopher Lyons, 32, admitted to robbing a Citizens Bank location within the supermarket of an undisclosed amount of cash on Nov. 6, 2011. Lyons is scheduled to face sentencing in U.S. District Court on March 25. During the robbery, Lyons passed a note to a bank teller that read, "This is a robbery ... I have a gun," according to court documents. The teller then handed Lyons a stack of cash that contained an exploding dye pack. Lyons fled Giant Eagle with the cash, which exploded in the store's Moon Plaza parking lot before he drove away in a black Cadillac Escalade. With the help of surveillance footage, …
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5990 University Blvd, Coraopolis, PA
Giant Eagle
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103 Beisner Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
Site of armed standoff
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Christopher Lyons is in the courts system.
UPDATE: Christopher Lyons had a pretrial conference at the Allegheny County Courthouse on July 20 to face the charges of prohibited use of a firearm, making terroristic threats and aggravated assault. He will now face a non-jury trial for those charges at the same location, beginning on Sept. 21. A Brentwood Borough man has been indicted on one count of bank robbery in connection with a November holdup in Moon Township. Following an investigation by Moon police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Christopher Lyons, 32, of 103 Beisner Ave., was charged in federal court on April 25 with robbing a Citizens Bank inside of a Moon Giant Eagle of $1,140. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. …
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5990 University Blvd, Coraopolis, PA
Giant Eagle
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103 Beisner Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
Site of armed standoff
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436 Grant St, Pittsburgh, PA
Allegheny County Courthouse
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" ... I can't imagine who on this street would have robbed a bank, never thinking it (could have been) him." - Neighbor
Moon Township police have identified the man involved in an armed standoff on Sunday night in Brentwood Borough as the suspect in an armed robbery of the Citizens Bank branch in the Giant Eagle on Moon's University Boulevard earlier on Sunday. Authorities said that Christopher Lyons, 31, underwent surgery overnight at UPMC Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh after he stabbed himself in the neck, wrist and leg during the standoff. Moon police said that the standoff began after they arrived with a warrant to search Lyons' home at 103 Beisner Ave. in Brentwood, just over the Whitehall Borough border, and that Lyons holed up inside the Beisner home after confronting officers with a gun and a knife. Investigators identified and located Lyons in …
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5990 University Blvd, Coraopolis, PA
Giant Eagle
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40.36902
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103 Beisner Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
Site of armed standoff
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1400 Locust St, Pittsburgh, PA
UPMC Mercy Hospital
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Robert Edward Healy, III
11:39 am on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
UPDATE: The assault charge has been dropped. more ›