Friday, September 03, 1999
Accused robber agrees to cooperate
Plea deal reached in postal burglary
BY BEN L. KAUFMAN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Jamie Poor agreed this week to plead guilty to a burglary at the Norwood post office.
Mr. Poor, 35, of Sturm Road, Price Hill, also agreed to help Assistant U.S. Attorney Ralph Kohnen probe that and other crimes. He is to plead guilty Sept. 13.
He is in state custody for what Cincinnati police say was a botched bank robbery.
On May 15, authorities say Mr. Poor entered the lobby of the post office at 4515 Allison St. after it closed. He broke a hole in the wall, then left to see if he had tripped an alarm.
When it appeared he hadn't, Mr. Poor entered the main post officethrough a parcel locker door, opened sealed mail, and took computer discs, radios, electrical devices and other items.
He also tried to pry open a sodamachine.
The plea agreement did not say how he was caught. The postal inspector in charge of the case could not be reached for comment.
Four days later, Cincinnati police say, Mr. Poor went into the Provident Bank on Crookshank Road in Westwood and gave the teller a note saying he was armed with explosives and would blow everyone up if he didn't get money.
He left with cash but was arrested about a block away in a Walgreen's, police said.
A Hamilton County grand jury indicted him on May 28 and he is in the Justice Center awaiting trial on an aggravated robbery charge.
He had been on parole for five months after serving 11 years for robbing a savings and loan in Hyde Park Plaza.
His uncle William Poor did time for robbing a Newport savings and loan in 1982 and escaping from jail after someone smuggled him a gun. He has since been released.
Another uncle, James Poor, served time for a 1989 Cincinnati bank holdup that was foiled when a bystander wrestled a sawed-off shotgun from him.
“It just keeps going down,” Jamie Poor's sister, Tina Vandyne, 28, said after he was arrested in May. “The older uncles had done it, and the younger cousins lived to tell about it. It just kept getting passed down.”
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