- Myron Mullins jailed on parole violation warrant
- Mullins, 42, is suspect in Miamisburg bank robbery
- Police tracked Mullins to Days Inn in Butler Twp.
- Mullins has prior felony burglary convictions
- Alleged bank heist accomplice Jozie Barcy also in jail
Miamisburg police detectives said Myron Mullins, 42, and Jozie Barcy were commiting the thefts to support a drug habit. Mullins and Barcy have not been connected to other bank robberies in the area.
Miamisburg police on Wednesday afternoon tracked Mullins, the alleged getaway driver in the Tuesday afternoon robbery of U.S. Bank, 515 E. Central Ave., to the Days Inn & Suites in Butler Twp.
Mullins refused to come out when Butler Twp. officers arrived at the hotel, 7470 Miller Lane. He spoke to dispatchers over the phone, when he claimed he had a gun and a hostage in the room.
“At one point he did come to the window with the hostage in front of him holding something to the back of his head,” said Butler Twp. Police Chief John Cresie.
Negotiators from the Montgomery County Regional SWAT team convinced Mullins to release his hostage sometime before 5:30 p.m., and more than an hour later Mullins surrendered. A special weapons and tactics team escorted Mullins from the room on a stretcher into a waiting ambulance. Miller Lane — blocked between Maxton and Little York roads — was reopened shortly before 7 p.m. Wednesday.
The hostage, Aaron Baker, said he just met Mullins on Wednesday, that Mullins bought him lunch and said he wanted to hang out with someone. Things changed quickly, with Baker becoming a hostage once police arrived.
“He just said that he was going to go back to prison, and he wasn’t going to,” Baker said.
Mullins told Baker he had a gun and would kill him.
“I was telling him just to let me go and let me live,” Baker said.
Butler Twp. police searched the hotel room, where they found drugs but no weapon inside.
Mullins was evaluated at a local hospital after taking illegal drugs before he was booked into the Montgomery County Jail, Butler Twp. police said. He arrived at the jail around 10:30 p.m., according to corrections officers.
Mullins has an extensive, 24-year criminal history, online court and state prison records show.
At the time of this week’s bank robbery and standoff, Mullins was on parole after his release from prison in August 2012. He was sentenced to four years for felony burglary convictions in Greene and Montgomery counties in 2009. Mullins was arrested on a parole violation warrant issued by the Adult Parole Authority and also faces a kidnapping charge in addition to other possible charges out of Miamisburg.
Barcy, 21, reportedly confessed to her role as the alleged bank robber in the 3 p.m. Tuesday heist at U.S. Bank in Miamisburg and provided evidence to detectives. Barcy is scheduled to appear Friday in court.