Post by Logan on Jan 30, 2016 0:07:56 GMT -6
Sex offender gets more than 9 years for Hallowell bank robbery
BANGOR, Maine — A convicted sex offender was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court to more than 9½ years in federal prison for a June 2014 bank robbery in Hallowell.
John Cecil Slater, 68, of Gardiner pleaded guilty in October 2014. By pleading guilty, Slater admitted that he robbed the Hallowell branch of the Bank of Maine at about 10:15 a.m. June 23, 2014.
In addition to nine years and seven months in prison, Slater was sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution of $15,000.
Slater, who has been held without bail since his arrest on July 9, 2014, in Twin Mountain, New Hampshire, by members of the FBI’s Boston Division and Maine State Police, was identified by several people who recognized him in a surveillance photo released to the media.
Read more: bangordailynews.com/2016/01/29/news/augusta/sex-offender-sentenced-to-9%C2%BD-years-for-hallowell-bank-robbery/
BANGOR, Maine — A convicted sex offender was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court to more than 9½ years in federal prison for a June 2014 bank robbery in Hallowell.
John Cecil Slater, 68, of Gardiner pleaded guilty in October 2014. By pleading guilty, Slater admitted that he robbed the Hallowell branch of the Bank of Maine at about 10:15 a.m. June 23, 2014.
In addition to nine years and seven months in prison, Slater was sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution of $15,000.
Slater, who has been held without bail since his arrest on July 9, 2014, in Twin Mountain, New Hampshire, by members of the FBI’s Boston Division and Maine State Police, was identified by several people who recognized him in a surveillance photo released to the media.
Read more: bangordailynews.com/2016/01/29/news/augusta/sex-offender-sentenced-to-9%C2%BD-years-for-hallowell-bank-robbery/