Man nets 22 years for role in robbery
Posted on Saturday, October 27, 2007
Wesley Sawney Jr. was sentenced to 22 years in prison Friday, just over a week after a Washington County jury found him guilty of helping his brother rob a Springdale bank in April.
Sawney, 27, of Huntsville was sentenced after his brother James Glen Sawney, 24, talked to police this week and told them his brother drove the getaway vehicle, a red Jeep Cherokee.
James Sawney pleaded guilty earlier this week to aggravated robbery and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He admitted to pulling a handgun on a teller at the Arkansas National Bank, 2422 E. Robinson Ave., taking $ 8, 200.
He told Circuit Judge William Storey at the time of the plea that his brother did not have anything to do with the robbery. Later, after police talked more with him, James Sawney said his brother was involved.
Wesley Sawney continued to deny involvement Friday.
Storey, acting on the jury’s recommendation on Oct. 15, sentenced Sawney to 10 years in the Arkansas Department of Correction for accomplice to aggravated robbery, seven years because a handgun was used, five years for accomplice to theft of property and one year for accomplice to arson. The last sentence runs concurrent with the 22 years.
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