On September 21, 2018, Charles Ray Skweres, 42, walked into the Chase Bank at 2100 Buckthorne and handed the teller a note stating that he had explosives and that he would detonate them if she did not comply. The teller handed Skweres $1000 from the drawer. Before he fled he requested the note be returned. He then fled on foot between the bank and Beck’s Prime Restaurant. Witnesses observed Skweres wad his jacket up and lay it near the drive-thru. Montgomery County Detectives were able to match the video to a booking photo. They then learned that the jacket he disposed of was given to him by a family member who identified it when confronted by detectives. The jacket was submitted to DPS for DNA analysis. The report came back in March 2020 matching Skweres to the jacket. Photos from prior arrests were shown to the victim at the bank who was able to identify him. The arrest warrant was then issued. He was bench warranted from Harris County where
This was not Skweres first robbery. In February of 2000, he was arrested for robbery and tampering with evidence. For that, he was given deferred probation for 8 years in March of 2000. That was lived as in October of 2002 a warrant was issued revoking his probation for failing to report to probation for 17 months in addition to not paying or performing community service. His conditions were amended and he was ordered to a Harris County Intensive Probation Facility in April 2003. Once he was released from that facility and still on probation, He then got a possession case in Collin County and was sent to State Jail. Judge Edwards issued a bench warrant and had him returned to Montgomery County in November 2005. In April 2006 his probation was revoked and he was sent to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for 2-years. He was then arrested in Fort Bend County on a theft charge and sentenced to 20 days there. He returned to Montgomery County and in 2013 was charged with three possession charges. Judge Case sentenced him to 10 months in State Jail. On March 9, 2014, he was arrested in Harris County for possession of meth and was quickly sentenced to 3-years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Then in May and again in August of 2019, he was charged with theft of a Dewalt tool set and Dewalt batteries from Home Depot and two video games from Target in Montgomery County. On December 18, 2019, was sentenced to 1-year in Texas State Jail on those charges. It was those mug shots that helped to identify him in the 2018 bank robbery.
