Associated Press
SEATTLE — A bank robbery defendant who was the object of an international manhunt for months before he surrendered has agreed to plead guilty to robbery and unlawful imprisonment charges, a King County prosecutor’s spokesman confirmed Thursday night.
Aristotle Marr was expected to enter his pleas Friday before King County Superior Court Judge Donald Haley, spokesman Dan Donohoe said.
Marr will face a standard sentencing range of 18 to 23 years in prison.
He had been scheduled for trial in March.
Marr, who surrendered approximately a year ago, had been charged with robbery, kidnapping and assault in a north Seattle Wells Fargo Bank branch holdup in June 2000. After the robbery, Marr’s alleged accomplice, Daniel del Fierro, was killed in a shootout with police, and a police officer was wounded.
Had he been convicted of all the counts he originally faced, Marr could have faced a maximum 46 years in prison.
Marr had been accused of holding Ellen and Richard Germain hostage as he escaped from the bank robbery. Ellen Germain caught him trying to hot-wire their truck, and Marr took her and her husband hostage inside their home, prosecutors alleged.
When she was told the kidnapping count had been downgraded to unlawful imprisonment, Ellen Germain told KING-TV, "That’s fine. Whatever will put him away."
While he was on the run, Marr was believed to have been living in Jamaica.
After his surrender, a mysterious Jamaican businessman reportedly was willing to post $500,000 bail for Marr, but Haley refused to release the prisoner last fall, saying he needed more proof of the benefactor’s existence.
Marr attorney Peter Connick did not return calls for comment late Thursday.
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