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Classification Form 1b Rev. January 1955

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE BUREAU OF PRISONS

CLASSIFICATION STUDY (Continued)

Comm. MKET, Richard Drummond Register Number A-79152-L Page MASTER

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PRESENT OFFENSE, Official Version: On August 15, 1961 [guess: taken], knowingly and wilfully by intimidation took ' [illegible] the person and pr[illegible]nce of [REDACTED] the sum of $3,000 belonging to the Columbia Savings & Loan Association of Denver, Colorado, [REDACTED] being an employee of that firm. He entered a plea of guilty in U.S. District Court, Denver, Colorado and was sentenced October 27, 1961 to serve seven years. No codefendants are shown. The circumstances are that while still under probation under the jurisdiction of the United States Probation Service of Los Angeles, California and while still under probation to the Milwaukee County Probation Department in Milwaukee, Wisconsin he committed the present offense. The following day, in the b6 per BOP evening, while he was living under the name of [REDACTED] at a motel in Aurora, b7C Colorado with a female companion and her two small children, he was approached by FBI agents in the parking lot of a restaurant. He was carrying one of the small children in his arms and when the agents approached to question him and identified themselves, he made a gesture with his right hand, giving the impression he was drawing a gun from his belt and then placed his right fist into the back of the child under his sport coat. He made a gesture toward the FBI agents making a statement "[guess: Don't] [guess: move]. Get back". When advised again of the identity of the agents, using the child and his female companion as a shield, he backed away again, warning "Keep away from me" and kept his right hand under the back of the child. He backed away under these circumstances for a distance of approximately one mile into a darkened area where he separated from them after placing the child on the ground, at which time he fled.

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When the judge was pronouncing sentence upon him he interrupted the judge, stating "I don't think I need a tongue lashing with the sentence, Your Honor, I would like to ask the Court to omit verbal punishment and give me my sentence immediately. If I am going to do the time I might at well get it and do it. I don't think I need a verbal tongue lashing with it". On two occasions Duket was reported by Deputy Marshalls to have threatened escape.

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INMATE VERSION: The information given to us and to the probation officer by him is to the effect that he owed his brother [REDACTED] about $200 and he says his b6 per BOP brother was putting pressure on him to get the money or he would be reported to the b7C probation officers. After having arrived in Denver, Colorado August 9, 1961 he was in the downtown area of Denver on August 13th and as he walked past the Columbia Savings & Loan Association he thought it would be an easy place to rob, but decided to wait a few days, walking the streets and frequenting Mary's Bar next door, where he met a woman employee by the name of [REDACTED] and they became friends. He claims that on the morning of the robbery he went to the bar and talked with this person about his intention of robbing the place and planned to call her after the robbery so they could celebrate. About 11:15 he walked past the Savings & Loan company again but saw some policemen in the area and waited until they left. Then he entered the place, going to the counter, getting a withdrawal slip, writing on it "This is a holdup" but since there were too many people around he decided to wait a while loitering in the lobby and talking to an employee. When the customers thinned out he got in line at the window of what appeared to be the youngest looking cashier and asked her to help him and she stated she would, whereupon he gave her the withdrawal slip and kept his right hand below the counter to give the impression that he had a gun, but he carried no weapon. The cashier handed him several bundles of $20 bills, later learned to be in the amount of .. approximately $3,000. He left the place and took a cab to a place on Colfax avenue, changed clothes, counted his money, and called [REDACTED] and they met at 1:30 PM, going shopping and attending bars, later picking her children up and registering at a b6 per BOP motel on East Colfax avenue as man and wife. Shortly thereafter while coming out of b7C the restaurant the officers approached him and he admits that he put his hand inside

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