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Indictment in Pizza Delivery Collar-Bomb Bank Robbery

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A federal grand jury indicts two suspects in the Erie, Pennsylvania bank robbery that killed a pizza-delivery man using an explosive neck bomb device. According to the indictment, the defendants originally planned to make it seem like a co-conspirator (pizza-deliveryman Brian Wells) “was merely a hostage by making it appear” that he was forced to follow the defendants' instructions “to perpetrate the robbery and safely deactivate” the necklace bomb. However, if the pizza deliveryman did not give defendants “the bank robbery proceeds, [follow] instructions, and if he died, he could not be a witness.”

Armstrong is accused of killing “her live-in boyfriend, to keep him from disclosing the bank robbery plan.” On August 28, 20003, the defendants, the pizza deliveryman, and another co-conspirator attached the neck-bomb to Wells’ “neck and torso” before sending him off to rob the bank.

When Pennsylvania State Troopers stopped Wells, Diehl Armstrong and Barnes are accused of driving away from Wells (who still had $8,702.00 that he stole from the bank), subsequently causing the neck bomb to explode and kill him