9/6/13 - Local charges are moving forward against a Lansing man indicted by a federal grand jury for a series of bank robberies in Brighton, Williamston and Stockbridge. 42-year-old Todd White is charged in Livingston County Circuit Court with five counts of armed robbery for the March 18th robbery of the PNC Bank on West Grand River in Brighton and the April 26th robbery of the 1st national Bank on Challis Road in Brighton. A September 23rd trial date is set in front of Judge David Reader. However, White is also facing federal charges related to the heists, as well as two others in Ingham County. Livingston County Prosecutor Bill Vailliencourt tells WHMI that the federal charges are not for the actual bank robberies in Brighton, but instead conspiracy to commit those crimes, meaning he plans to proceed with the local case against White while federal prosecutors proceed with theirs. The federal indictment charges White, along with co-defendant Roderigious Williams, with three counts of armed robbery and conspiracy to commit armed robbery. White was also charged separately in Grand Rapids federal court with brandishing a firearm during a felony and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Also charged were Andrea Hath and Jessica Felix, who are alleged to have assisted. All four are set for trial in Grand Rapids federal court October 29th.
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