Man sentenced after pleading guilty to robbing Wilmington bank, brandishing screwdriver

A Wilmington man was sentenced Thursday to more than four years in prison for a bank robbery where he brandished a screwdriver.

Glenn Alin Martinoff, 68, pled guilty to the charge in June from the January robbery, according to a news release from the United States Attorney’s Office's Eastern District of North Carolina. He received a 56-month sentence.

According to court documents and other information presented in court, Martinoff entered the Dogwood State Bank in Wilmington on January 10 with a large screwdriver and wearing a surgical mask, gloves, sunglasses, and baseball cap. Martinoff went behind the teller counter, stated that it was a robbery and took $6,460 before fleeing. Investigators responded and obtained surveillance video, including that of Martinoff’s getaway vehicle, and were able to determine that the car was for sale at a nearby dealership.

At the dealership, investigators found the getaway vehicle and a copy of Martinoff’s license, which he had provided when he took the vehicle for a test drive earlier that day. Investigators then obtained a search warrant for Martinoff’s apartment and upon executing the same, recovered the stolen cash, along with clothing items worn by Martinoff during the robbery, and the screwdriver. Martinoff has two prior federal bank robbery convictions from 1991 and 1996.

G. Norman Acker, III, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, made the announcement after sentencing by U.S. District Judge Terrence W. Boyle. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Wilmington Police Department investigated the case and Assistant U.S. Attorney Bryan Stephany prosecuted the case.