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Burlco man admits robbing nine banks in five months

Burlington County man Shalir Hall, 21, admitted Friday to robbing nine New Jersey banks in five months.

A Burlington County man admitted Friday to robbing nine banks in five months.

Shalir Hall, 21, of Edgewater Park, appeared in federal court in Camden to plead guilty to a criminal information charging him with nine counts of bank robbery.

Prosecutors said Hall's spree touched off Sept. 27, 2013, when he robbed a Beneficial Savings Bank in Willingboro of nearly $12,400.

He then joined forces with another man to commit seven more bank robberies in Burlington, Camden and Mercer counties, netting nearly $29,000.

Prosecutors said Hall and his accomplice alternated roles, with each man taking turns going into the banks and acting as a getaway driver.

Two of the robberies – one targeting a Third National Bank; the second, a Roma Bank, both in Delran – were committed within 15 minutes of one another on Dec. 12, 2013, according to investigators.

On Jan. 8, the duo again pulled off two heists in one day, robbing a TD Bank in Bellmawr and a PNC Bank in East Windsor, according to authorities.

Hall also admitted to the solo robbery Dec. 17, 2013 of a Columbia Savings Bank in Maple Shade.

Though court documents do not identify his alleged accomplice, agents from the U.S. Marshals Service arrested both Hall and 23-year-old David Glenn, of Burlington Township, inside a Newark apartment Jan. 13.

Both men were originally being sought as fugitives in connection with a Burlington Township home invasion that occurred in October 2013.

Prosecutors in Camden and Burlington counties soon charged Glenn with the two bank robberies that occurred in Delran Dec. 12, as well as the Jan. 8 robbery in Bellmawr.

Glenn, who has not been federally charged, remains imprisoned at the Burlington County Jail.

Hall faces a maximum possible penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each of the charges to which he pleaded guilty when he is sentenced Feb. 27, prosecutors said.

As a part of his plea agreement, he is also required to make full restitution to each of the banks.