84-year-old bank robber who wanted to return to prison gets 21 years for credit union heist

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On Tuesday, Robert Francis Krebs, 84, of Tucson, Arizona was sentenced to 262 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release.

Krebs was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $8,385. Krebs was already convicted by a jury for armed bank robbery in 2017.

On January 12, 2018, Krebs entered into Pyramid Federal Credit Union in Tucson, Arizona and demanded money from the bank tellers. Krebs ended up stealing $8,300 but was caught at a local motel after the branch manager and another teller tripped a silent alarm that was located inside the bank vault. When local authorities found Krebs in the motel parking lot, he was disguised in a wig, had cotton in his cheeks and varnished his fingertips to leave no fingerprints, according toOnce local authorities interrogated Krebs, they found out that he stole from the local bank because his $800 social security checks weren't"enough to live on," according to court records.

A stock photo of handcuffs and fingerprints. An Arizona man who spent over half his life behind bars is headed back to prison after robbing two bank tellers at gunpoint back in 2018.

 

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