88-year-old Montana man who was driver in bank robbery sentenced to 2 years in prison

BILLINGS, Mont. — An 88-year-old Montana man was sentenced to two years in a federal prison medical facility for being the driver in two Billings bank robberies last summer, the state's office said. U.S. Attorney for Montana.

The man was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty in February to two counts of bank robbery. He was ordered to pay nearly $3,100 in restitution and will be on supervised release for three years after serving his prison sentence.

U.S. District Court Judge Susan Watters ordered him to report to the U.S. Marshals Service, after which he would be sent to a Bureau of Prisons medical facility.

The man and his co-defendant were arrested after the second robbery in August 2023 in a car matching the description of the car involved in the first bank robbery four days earlier, prosecutors said. The defendant told investigators that he suggested that he and the co-defendant rob banks to get money, as he had done in the past. The defendant pleaded guilty to bank robbery in 2008, when he was 72 years old.