Bank robber gets 5 days in jail
That seems a bit light, even with 8 years of other supervision thrown in
http://www.journalreview.com/articles/2007/03/01/news/01robber.txt
A man arrested for bank robbery was sentenced to five days in Montgomery County Jail and ordered to take financial management classes.
Driven to desperation because his home was being foreclosed on the next morning Thomas Leroy Armes robbed the Fountain Trust Co. Bank, he said in his testimony.
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Armes, 43, of Dayton, admitted in a video taped interview to staging the robbery last May 18. Armes said drove for four hours around Danville and Crawfordsville while contemplating robbery.
"Time was running out," he said.
Armes told police he borrowed a friend's pickup truck and bought a paintball gun that looked like a 9mm semiautomatic pistol three days before the robbery. Armes drove to the bank, left and returned a second time before getting the courage to approach the bank with the non-lethal gun, pantyhose mask, baseball cap and an extra shirt, he said in his testimony. Entering the bank, Armes displayed the gun and demanded $20,000 from the tellers, he said.
"I didn't know what else to say," Armes said. "I threatened one of the ladies very badly, while putting the gun to her head."
While driving back to Lafayette, Armes said he got phone calls from his mother and wife asking if he had taken care of the house. "I'm working on it," Armes said. Armes told the court no one knew what he had done.
Crawfordsville Police Chief Kurt Knecht and Assistant Chief Hal Utterback found Armes driving a pickup truck on U.S. 231 matching a description given by the bank employees. They followed him and waited for other officers to arrive and help with his arrest north of Linden.
"It's me, I'm the one. I'm the one that robbed the bank," Armes testified to telling police in the traffic stop.
Montgomery Circuit Court Judge Thomas K. Milligan sentenced Armes to two years work release, two years community corrections and four years probation. The court ordered Armes to take financial management classes and five days to be served at the Montgomery County Jail until his sentence can be transferred to Tippecanoe County.
Considering Armes' character and the circumstances surrounding this offense, Milligan determined the crime was stress-induced and said he believes Armes is regretful and shows genuine remorse for what he did.
In exchange for his guilty pleas, the court dismissed three additional counts of robbery.
Armes lives at 293 Harrison St. in Dayton in Tippecanoe County.
http://www.journalreview.com/articles/2007/03/01/news/01robber.txt
A man arrested for bank robbery was sentenced to five days in Montgomery County Jail and ordered to take financial management classes.
Driven to desperation because his home was being foreclosed on the next morning Thomas Leroy Armes robbed the Fountain Trust Co. Bank, he said in his testimony.
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Armes, 43, of Dayton, admitted in a video taped interview to staging the robbery last May 18. Armes said drove for four hours around Danville and Crawfordsville while contemplating robbery.
"Time was running out," he said.
Armes told police he borrowed a friend's pickup truck and bought a paintball gun that looked like a 9mm semiautomatic pistol three days before the robbery. Armes drove to the bank, left and returned a second time before getting the courage to approach the bank with the non-lethal gun, pantyhose mask, baseball cap and an extra shirt, he said in his testimony. Entering the bank, Armes displayed the gun and demanded $20,000 from the tellers, he said.
"I didn't know what else to say," Armes said. "I threatened one of the ladies very badly, while putting the gun to her head."
While driving back to Lafayette, Armes said he got phone calls from his mother and wife asking if he had taken care of the house. "I'm working on it," Armes said. Armes told the court no one knew what he had done.
Crawfordsville Police Chief Kurt Knecht and Assistant Chief Hal Utterback found Armes driving a pickup truck on U.S. 231 matching a description given by the bank employees. They followed him and waited for other officers to arrive and help with his arrest north of Linden.
"It's me, I'm the one. I'm the one that robbed the bank," Armes testified to telling police in the traffic stop.
Montgomery Circuit Court Judge Thomas K. Milligan sentenced Armes to two years work release, two years community corrections and four years probation. The court ordered Armes to take financial management classes and five days to be served at the Montgomery County Jail until his sentence can be transferred to Tippecanoe County.
Considering Armes' character and the circumstances surrounding this offense, Milligan determined the crime was stress-induced and said he believes Armes is regretful and shows genuine remorse for what he did.
In exchange for his guilty pleas, the court dismissed three additional counts of robbery.
Armes lives at 293 Harrison St. in Dayton in Tippecanoe County.
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Unreal.
This is a crime that can be tried in either Federal or local jurisdiction.
Had the Feds taken the case, he would have gotten at least five years.0 -
I have to wonder what the three additional counts were. Were they related to the same crime or were they seperate robberies? 0 -
I think they did a good thing...you have to judge each case on it's individual merrits and I think justice was probably served here. If he's on work release, doesn't that mean he has to go back to jail every night for the next two years...that's two years he'll be spending away from his family. 0 -
ECC- that is EXACTLY what that means. 0
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