An 18th Judicial District jury convicted a Greenwood Village man of robbing four different banks in the metro Denver area over four months in 2022, leading to nearly $85,000 stolen.

Greenwood Village Police officers arrested 30-year-old Jonathan Martin Bell following an armed robbery on Dec. 1, 2022. He was held on $1 million bail on suspicion of several felony charges in connection to four bank robberies in the region.

According to a press release by the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, the jury convicted him of the following charges after a nine-day trial this month:

• Aggravated Robbery – 15 counts
• Kidnapping – three count
• Menacing – nine counts
• Theft – four counts
• Reckless Endangerment
• Attempted Manslaughter

These charges were in connection to four different incidents for armed robberies at Commerce Bank in Aurora on Sept. 1, 2022, UMB Bank in Denver on Oct. 3, 2022, US Bank in Aurora on Oct. 19, 2022 and Key Bank in Greenwood Village on Dec. 1, 2022.

Bell pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Police arrested Bell following the robbery at Key Bank in the 9000 block of East Arapahoe Road around 10:30 a.m. Dec. 1, 2022. A person in the bank had hid in the bathroom and called 911, reporting that a man had been robbing the bank at gunpoint. 

Responding officers saw a man in a camouflage jacket leave the bank and run toward a nearby Target. The officers gave chase. Bell shot at the police and the police returned fire. No one was injured. Bell eventually took shelter in a nearby hotel room, causing a standoff. 

Bell had left the bank with $66,080 in $20 bills. Some of the money included a GPS tracker, according to arrest documents.

Police found Bell in a room at the hotel through GPS tracking. He had been staying in the room. Officers evacuated the hotel and negotiated with Bell for nearly four hours before he surrendered. 

Bell was previously convicted in Arapahoe County in 2016 on charges including theft, aggravated robbery with a weapon, fraud and assault, according to court records.

He was sentenced in July 2016 to 16 years in prison and was on parole, state Department of Corrections records show.

Bell faces over 100 years in prison and will be held in the Arapahoe County jail until he is sentenced in 2024, according to the press release.

“Clearly this defendant has not learned his lesson,” District Attorney John Kellner said in the release. “In 2016, my office prosecuted Mr. Bell for committing an armed robbery at a Payday loan center. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison, yet he didn’t even serve half of his sentence before being released on parole. We need truth in sentencing reform to ensure dangerous criminals actually serve their sentences.”

The Denver Gazette’s news partner, 9News, contributed to this story