Ocean City’s ‘Bike Bandit’ Pleads Guilty To 8 Bank Robberies

CAMDEN– A man police dubbed the “Bike Bandit” has admitted committing eight bank robberies in southern New Jersey and Delaware, the Associated Press reports.
Forty-eight-year-old Brian Layton of East Greenwich Township pleaded guilty Tuesday, Feb. 8, before U.S. District Judge Jerome Simandle in Camden.
Layton’s guilty plea includes the July 28, robbery of the Ocean City, Sturdy Savings Bank on 34th Street.
Layton was arrested Sept. 25 while trying to flee from a New Jersey state trooper on the Garden State Parkway.
Layton also robbed banks in Blackwood, Glendora, Hi-Nella, Franklin, Carneys Point (twice), and Wilmington, Del.
Each time, he rode away on a bicycle.
Each of the eight counts carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for May 27.