UPDATE: Three Charged With Robbing Two Greenville Banks

February 4 Update

Greenville County Sheriff’s office investigators have charged two more people for two armed robberies at the CPM Credit Union and the Palmetto Bank. 

Both banks were robbed on White Horse Road and Woodruff Road on January 21. 

Deputies have charged Charity Magdalene Burnside of Greenville with two counts of armed robbery. 

Dantevius Lamar Bland was also charged with two counts of armed robbery. Both are being held at the Greenville County Detention Center. 

Burnside has a $100,000 bond, but Bland was denied bond.

Reporting by Fred Cunningham

Greenville County Sheriff's deputies arrested a man and charged him with robbing two county banks Friday. 

Greenville County Sheriff's Office spokesman Matt Armstrong said that deputies arrested 17-year old Lafonzo Jabril Burnside, of Greenville, at Rocky Creek Apartment on Woodruff Road just after 8 pm Friday night. Burnside was later charged with two counts of armed robbery.

According to the Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to the CPM Federal Credit Union, located at 6709 White Horse Road, just before 5 pm Friday. When they arrived, they learned that a black male, later identified by witnesses as Burnside, had gone into the bank wearing a long black wig, white shirt, tan pants and sunglasses and brandished a black gun, later said to be a BB gun, to the teller and demanded cash.   

Lt. Shea Smith of the Greenville County Sheriff's Office said that the teller complied with the demands and filled a bag that Burnside had brought with him with cash. A short time later, deputies learned that the suspect had fled on foot behind the bank. During a search of the area, deputies found the bag of money on Davis Road with a dye pack inside that had exploded, Smith said. He said it appeared that the suspect had a vehicle parked nearby and managed to leave the scene.

About an hour later, deputies responded to a 911 call at The Palmetto Bank, located at 2101 Woodruff Road. When deputies arrived on scene, a bank employee told them that they had been robbed at gunpoint by a black male, matching the same description of the man involved in the White Horse, and he had fled the location on foot.

Armstrong said that during the course of the investigation, a vehicle believed to be the one that Burnside was allegedly using, was discovered at the apartment complex. He said investigators located Burnside inside an apartment and found red dye still on his hands from where the dye packs exploded, clothing similar to the items the robber was wearing and a BB gun.

Burnside was taken into custody and charged with the robberies. He is currently being held without bond at the Greenville County Detention Center.