LR man gets 15-year term in bank heist

The Little Rock man whom police identified as the gunman who robbed a Hillcrest bank last year has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Sentencing papers filed Friday show Detric Deshun Wilson Jr., 23, pleaded guilty to felony theft and two counts of aggravated robbery in exchange for the 15-year term imposed by Pulaski County Circuit Judge Herb Wright. Wilson also will have to serve a 10-year suspended sentence once he’s released from prison.

Wilson, who has been jailed since his arrest, was taken into custody about 30 minutes after the March 2019 holdup at the Simmons Bank branch on Kavanaugh Boulevard. Little Rock police found him about 3 miles away in Alsop Park. He was carrying a backpack that held an unloaded .22-caliber pistol and the bank’s money, $3,888, according to police reports.

Officers also arrested a man who had been seen running from the bank with Wilson, Bryan Anderson, 21, of Little Rock.

Wilson admitted to the holdup. Anderson said he’d planned to help Wilson but decided not to go into the bank at the last minute. Anderson pleaded guilty to robbery and theft charges in November in exchange for a 10-year prison term.

At the time of his arrest, Wilson had been on probation for about 10 months after pleading guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, a felony, and misdemeanor driving while intoxicated.

Court records show he had been charged for a hitand-run car crash in January 2018 after he ran a stop sign on Camp Robinson Road. Testing showed he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.22, nearly three times the legal limit of 0.08.