A Carson City man has been charged with seven counts of armed robbery, with two of the bank robberies occurring in Lake Tahoe.

Authorities say the fedora-wearing bank robber who struck Bank of the West in South Lake Tahoe on Feb. 18, 2010, is David Griffith Osborne.

Authorities say fedora-wearing bank robber is David Griffith Osborne.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento on Feb. 25 released the complaint against Osborne. He is already in federal custody on unrelated charges.

If convicted, Osborne faces up to 25 years in federal prison for each armed bank robbery.

According to the complaint, Osborne robbed the following California banks:

1. Dec. 22, 2009, Bank of the West, 736 Taylorville Road, Grass Valley;

2. Feb. 18, 2010, Bank of the West, 2160 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe;

3. March 9, 2010, Bank of the West, 200 Bear St., Kings Beach;

4. March 31, 2010, Bank of the West, 736 Taylorville Road, Grass Valley;

5. April 26, 2010, Bank of the West, 34 East Gridley Road, Gridley;

6. June 3, 2010, American River Bank, 9750 Business Park Drive, Rancho Cordova;

7. June 29, 2010, Chase Bank, 6669 Clark Road, Paradise.

Osborne also committed the April 12, 2010, armed robbery of the Bank of the West’s Carson City branch, according to authorities.

 — Lake Tahoe News staff report