Bank robber gets 8 years for 5 heists
Posted on Friday, October 10, 2008
A man who admitted to five bank robberies that netted nearly $ 20, 000 in cash was sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison Thursday.
U. S. District Judge William R. Wilson Jr. sentenced Troy Moore, 43, of Little Rock to a 104-month term. Wilson also ordered Moore to repay the money he had stolen — $ 18, 257 — and participate in a residential drug abuse treatment program, and sentenced him to three years of supervision after the completion of his prison sentence.
Moore was implicated in the robberies after someone who worked with him on construction jobs called police after television news stations aired security camera footage of the May 5 robbery of the Metropolitan National Bank at 3109 N. Reynolds Road in Bryant. Video footage eventually implicated Moore in the others as well, police said after his May 9 arrest. In June, a federal grand jury indicted Moore of robbing the banks over a three-year period. In August, he pleaded guilty to robbing the Metropolitan National branch and others: The Bank of Little Rock, 200 N. State St. on Aug. 31, 2005; Simmons First National Bank branch at 1717 Merrill Drive on Sept. 6, 2005, and April 28, 2007; and the Metropolitan National branch in Bryant on a second occasion, Sept. 12, 2005.
In each of the robberies, the suspect handed the teller a note but never displayed a gun, police said at the time of Moore’s arrest.
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