Roberto Solis is a convicted murderer, armored car robber, and criminal. He has more than 30 aliases including Pancho Aguila, a pen name he used in prison while writing poetry. He disappeared in October 1993.

Criminal background

Solis served 23 years in prison for murdering Louis Dake, a security guard, during an armored truck robbery in 1969. He was given parole in 1992. Following his release, he met Heather Tallchief, who became employed by a security company at his urging.

Roberto Solis

In October 1993, following Solis' instructions, Tallchief drove away in an armored vehicle containing $3.1 million. The two subsequently went on the run and had a child. Tallchief gave herself up in September 2005. On March 30, 2006, she was sentenced to 63 months in prison and released on parole in June 2010, but Solis is still at large.

Roberto Solis

See also

List of fugitives from justice who disappeared

Bibliography

Aguila, Pancho, 1976. Hijacked. Berkeley : Twowindows Press. Aguila, Pancho, 1977. 11 Poems. San Jose: Mango Press. Aguila, Pancho, 1977. Anti-gravity. Berkeley: Aldebaran Review. Aguila, Pancho, 1977. Dark Smoke: Poems. San Francisco : Second Coming Press. Clash, 1980 Paperback, Poetry For The People The Therapeutist and the 3rd Day Hunger Poem, 1978, single tri-fold sheet, Berkeley: Artaud's Elbow

Roberto Solis

References

1945 births

20th-century Mexican poets

American bank robbers

American male criminals

American male poets

American people convicted of murder

American prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment

American writers of Mexican descent

Fugitives wanted by the United States

Fugitives wanted on robbery charges

Living people

Mexican people convicted of murder

Mexican male poets

People convicted of murder by California

Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by California

People paroled from life sentence