Moses Lake bank robber pleads guilty

SPOKANE — The man responsible for robbing a Moses Lake bank in July pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court.

Cameron L. Gaunt, 28, pleaded guilty to three bank robberies Tuesday. The crimes spanned a week, ending with the robbery at Washington Trust Bank.

Gaunt entered the bank, demanding money from the cashier without displaying a weapon, according to Moses Lake police. He used the same method when he robbed a Bank of America branch in Omak and a Washington Trust Bank in Wenatchee.

Police caught the man in an east Spokane motel after he was identified from a photograph. He was found with a motorcycle he purchased using some of the money from the bank robberies, according to the U.S. Attorney General’s Office in Spokane..

“Gaunt was then being supervised by the United States Probation Office, having just been released from prison in June, after serving sentences for firearm and counterfeiting charges,” according to the office.

Gaunt is scheduled to be sentenced on March 3. Each conviction carries a possible sentence of up to 20 years in prison.