Serial robbery suspect accused of shooting victim in new charges

CINCINNATI (WXIX) – A convicted serial robbery suspect charged with 55 felonies in connection with several armed robberies will face new charges.

Police call Steve Ivery “the guy with the purple gun” because he uses a black handgun with a purple grip.

They say the latest case shows Ivery, 38, of Spring Grove Village, has become more dangerous and brazen since he shot one of the two victims.

According to court documents, the incident occurred on August 21 in the 900 block of Mount Street in the West End.

Ivery was served with the new charges Thursday at the Hamilton County Justice Center, where he had been in custody since Sept. 2 on several charges.

He has now been charged with aggravated assault, kidnapping, aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary.

He is scheduled to return to court at 9 a.m. Friday.

Ivery’s combined bail for the previous charges is $600,000.

If released, he will be placed under house arrest as ordered by the court, under electronic monitoring.

In all, Ivery was charged with at least a dozen robberies that occurred throughout the summer in Hamilton County and Cincinnati.

His crimes include the assault of a Lyft driver who was lured from Columbus to Cincinnati and then robbed of his vehicle at gunpoint, and the armed robbery of a BP gas station in Harrison on Aug. 13, according to court documents.

Ivery was convicted in 2015 of aggravated robbery in Hamilton County and is no longer licensed to possess a firearm.

But that clearly didn’t deter him, and he didn’t give up easily when police arrested him earlier this month over the Labor Day long weekend.

In the process, he also injured a policeman.

Green Township police spotted Ivery driving a vehicle that had been stolen from a Lyft driver on North Bend Road off Interstate 74.

According to witness statements, they tried to stop him, but Ivery fled in the stolen vehicle at a high rate of speed and ran a red light.

Measurements showed the vehicle reached speeds of up to 70 mph as Ivery continued to flee from police.

He broke multiple traffic laws, police said in a court document, “creating a serious risk of injury to motorists.”

Several police units tried to end the pursuit by throwing so-called “stop batons” to deflate the tires.

Springfield Twp and Colerain Twp police successfully used a tire deflation device and, according to court documents, the fleeing vehicle eventually stopped after an approximately 10-mile pursuit.

Ivery jumped from the vehicle and ran away but was apprehended by Cincinnati police.

According to police, this happened when he injured a police officer’s hand “while actively resisting arrest.”

Court documents reveal that Ivery further complicated the case by lying to police and giving them an ID that listed his name as a man with a different last name.

He has a habit of running away from the police by crashing cars and then running away.

During the Harrison BP robbery, Ivery fled in a marked Global Medical Products truck parked on the south side of the store, police said in a statement.

The detective saw Ivery driving away in the truck and followed him on Dry Fork Road to I-74.

Uniformed officers tried to stop the truck, but Ivery fled, giving chase.

During the pursuit, the truck was damaged and Ivery fled on foot, police wrote in an affidavit.

Police say as he fled he dropped his distinctive black and purple handgun about three feet from the truck.

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