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Latricia Samuels and Mayra Rodriguez, both of Lancaster, along with Ronald Samuels, 34, and David Dupree, 32, both of Camden, N.J., are guilty of the 2004 robbery of a M&T Bank in Lebanon. They escaped with more than $10,000 in cash.
Latricia and Ronald Samuels are brother and sister, and Rodriguez is Dupree's ex-girlfriend.
The four were charged with armed bank robbery and conspiracy to commit armed bank robbery. The two women could be sentenced to 25 years for the robbery charge and 5 more for the conspiracy charge, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Samuels and Dupree also were charged with use of a firearm during a crime of violence and face possible life sentences.
On Wednesday, Dupree was convicted of all the charges after a three-day trial in Harrisburg before United States District Court Chief Judge Yvette Kane.
He now awaits sentencing.
The four were arrested after investigators, using DNA matching, linked Samuels to a pair of sunglasses he had been wearing to hide his face but which he dropped at the crime scene.
According to the FBI, on April 15, 2004, Dupree and Ronald Samuels burst into a M&T Bank in Lebanon, brandishing semi-automatic pistols. After obtaining the cash, the two bandits fled. After about two blocks, they joined Latricia Samuels and Rodriguez, who was driving the getaway car.
All four were indicted by a federal grand jury in April 2008, and Rodriguez and the two Samuels siblings pleaded guilty.
