Man Sentenced for Robberies Shooting at Deputies

(St. Louis, MO) A Florrisant man, 31 year old Cameron A. Thomas, is facing 25 years in prison after being sentenced Thursday in St. Louis U.S. District Court. Thomas is convicted of committing three bank robberies and shooting at Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputies before forcing his way into a woman’s apartment. Thomas is ordered to repay $19,262 to the banks he robbed. On October 24th, 2020, while dressed as a woman, Thomas robbed the First Community State Bank in Jefferson County. Three days later he robbed the Electro Savings Credit Union in St. Louis County. The next day, Thomas returned to the First Community State Bank for the third robbery. Employees called police, and a Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputy tried to stop him. The resulting vehicle chase ended at the Walden Pond apartments in High Ridge. Thomas fled his vehicle on foot, firing at deputies. He forced his way into a woman’s apartment at gunpoint. Deputies were able to pull the woman from the apartment. Thomas pleaded guilty in August to two counts of armed bank robbery, bank robbery, brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence and two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm.