Deidra Lane's Brother Arrested

C H A R L O T T E, Sept. 19 -- Deidra Lane remains in the Mecklenburg County Jail without bond after two appearances in court Monday.

Her brother is also in the Mecklenburg County Jail. He faces federal bank robbery charges. John Gary was arrested Monday afternoon in connection with several bank robberies in the Charlotte area.

Police say Gary robbed a First Citizens Bank in Charlotte in 1999.

A Suggested Motive

The widow of slain NFL running back Fred Lane was detained without bond Monday on bank robbery charges after court documents suggested Deidra Lane might have killed her husband to stop him from reporting the theft.

The documents were unsealed containing a statement from an FBI investigator which suggested a possible motive in the murder case: Deidra Lane killed her husband to keep him from telling police about her role in the July 1, 1998, theft of $41,200 from a Wachovia Bank branch in Charlotte.

There’s another hearing scheduled for Diedra Lane this afternoonregarding a first-degree murder charge stemming from her husband’smurder last July.

In an affidavit in connection with the federal bank larceny case against Deidra Lane, FBI agent David Drew said Kisha Tennille Hudson, a friend of Fred Lane, told homicide investigators that Fred Lane “told her that Deidra Lane, his wife, had stolen money from a bank in Charlotte, North Carolina. Fred Lane told Hudson that Deidra was afraid the police were after her because she went into a bank, where her friend was a teller, and came out with a bag of money,” he wrote.U.S. Magistrate Judge Carl Horn referred to the affidavit before he told a sobbing Deidra Lane that she would not be getting bail any time soon.

“Miss Lane is accused of killing her husband, in part, over money,” he said. “Now it appears it also might have been because he tried to go to authorities with evidence in this case.” State prosecutors contend Deidra Lane killed her husband to collect a $5 million life insurance policy. She has denied the claim, and said in a 911 call after the shooting that her husband had choked and hit her.