To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide penalties for armored car robberies.

July 15, 2003

Mr. CHABOT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide penalties for armored car robberies.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Armored Car Crew Protection Act of 2003'.

SEC. 2. ARMORED CAR ROBBERIES.

(a) OFFENSE- Chapter 103 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

`Sec. 2120. Armored car robbery

`(a) Whoever, by force and violence, or by intimidation, takes, or attempts to take, from the person or presence of another, or obtains or attempts to obtain by extortion, any property or money or any other thing of value belonging to, or in the care, custody, control, management, or possession of, any armored car shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.

`(b) Whoever, in committing an offense under subsection (a), assaults any person or puts in jeopardy the life of any person by the use of a dangerous weapon or device, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 25 years, or both.

`(c) Whoever, in committing an offense under subsection (a), or in avoiding or attempting to avoid apprehension for the commission of such offense, or in freeing himself or herself or attempting to free himself or herself from arrest or confinement for such offense, kills any person or forces any person to accompany him without the consent of such person, shall be imprisoned not less than 10 years, or if death results shall be punished by death or life imprisonment.

`(d) As used in this section--

`(1) the term `armored car' means a vehicle used by an armored car company to transport and protect currency, bullion, securities, precious metals, food stamps, and other articles of unusual value in interstate commerce; and

`(2) the term `armored car company' has the meaning given that term in section 5 of the Armored Car Industry Reciprocity Act of 1993.'.

(b) AMENDMENT TO TABLE OF SECTIONS- The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 103 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new item:

`2120. Armored car robbery.'.

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