Tyler Bank Robber Pleads Guilty

TYLER — A McKinney man, who was arrested for allegedly robbing Tyler’s Capital One Bank last year, has pleaded guilty. Daniel River Burson, 37, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Tyler Tuesday. He�ll be back in court at a later date following a pre-sentence investigation. Burson could get up to 20 years in federal prison.

A joint investigation between the Tyler Police Department and the FBI led Burson�s arrest. He was a corporate security consultant-investigator for the bank. Shortly before 8:00am on August 11, Tyler police received a 911 call of a robbery from an employee of the bank, located at Copeland and Loop 323. A bank employee said she and another female employee were walking back towards the drive-thru building door when they were approached by a man telling them to drop the black night deposit bag. The man then grabbed the bag, with just over $98,000 and fled in a dark Mercedes Benz four-door sedan with no license plates.