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YOUNGSTOWN -- A man who is serving a 21- to 26 1/2 year prison term for his part in a 2019 Liberty Township bank robbery is now indicted on federal charges in connection with a Nov. 6, 2018, robbery of the Lincoln Knolls Home Savings Bank.
Dabraylin Hawkins, 25, who last gave authorities a Duncan Lane, Youngstown address, is expected to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carmen E. Henderson today. A defense attorney wants the judge to reschedule a trial that was set to begin next Monday.
Hawkins' attorney Kenneth Callahan of Cleveland points to the large amount of evidence in the case and the fact that his law office has been closed as the reasons why the judge needs to postpone the trial.
Hawkins, who is housed in North Central Correctional Institution in Marion, has been accused of robbing the Lincoln Knolls bank branch in the fall of 2018. Police reports state an armed man demanded cash and fled the bank. Authorities searched the area but could not find him.
Last March, Hawkins pleaded guilty before Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge to charges connected to a 2019 robbery of the Liberty Home Savings. In that incident, Hawkins was shot in his lower body in a gunfight with an off-duty Liberty police officer, who was working a side job at the bank at the time. The bank robber managed to escape but was later arrested in the parking lot of a nearby Italian cafe.
Hawkins was also sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for that Liberty robbery.