Originally scheduled for sentencing this month, the defendant in the 2017 robbery of PNC Bank off Julian R. Allsbrook Highway is now scheduled for sentencing during the December 2 term of United States court in Raleigh.

Court records show the continuance stems from a motion filed by William Woodward Webb, who is the attorney for Dannie Simon Parker Jr., the man who was found guilty in April of robbing the bank.

Webb stated in the motion, which was granted by the court, “Undersigned counsel’s recent back surgery and the recuperation period has precluded him from visiting Mr. Parker; and Assistant United States Attorney Donald R. Pender has no objection to this motion.”

Parker will appear before District Judge James C. Dever III.

The jury found Parker guilty on count one of the indictment, which charged that he by force and violence took money belonging to PNC Bank.

On December 28, 2017, Parker, entered PNC at 1180 Julian R. Allsbrook Highway wearing a brown hooded sweatshirt, dark pants, brown boots, and sunglasses.

He approached the bank teller supervisor and presented a note demanding money in certain denominations and instructing, “no funny business.”

The supervisor walked with the defendant to the teller window and provided him with the money as instructed. The defendant told the supervisor repeatedly to “stay calm.” The defendant could be seen clearly on bank surveillance footage.

While handing cash over to the defendant, the supervisor triggered a silent bank alarm. She also gave the defendant a set of bait bills, a stack of cash that included a GPS tracker hidden inside. The defendant then fled the bank.

Using the GPS tracking data, the Roanoke Rapids Police Department encountered the defendant on Interstate 95. In his possession was the cash from the robbery, along with the clothes worn during the robbery, and the demand note presented. The defendant was arrested on scene.