MADISON, WI—John W. Vaudreuil, United
States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Michael
Funk, 27, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Friday, August 10, by U.S.
District Judge William Conley to 10 years in prison for using a firearm to rob
the Mid America Bank in Janesville. Funk pleaded guilty to this charge on June
14, 2012.
On August 6, 2011, the Mid America Bank
was robbed by a white male carrying a large, black semi-automatic handgun. He
pointed the gun at a teller and told her to give him all her money. He gave her
a drawstring type bag, and she put all the money from her drawer into the bag.
Funk was identified as the robber in
part based on information obtained during an investigation of an armed robbery
committed the day before at a convenience store in Belvidere, Illinois.
Funk was later arrested in the state of
Washington with a gun that looked similar to the one seen in the bank
surveillance video and $5,000, which included bait money from the Mid America
Bank.
The charges against Funk were the result
of an investigation conducted by the Janesville Police Department, Federal
Bureau of Investigation, Belvidere (Illinois) Police Department, and King
County (Washington) Sheriff’s Department. The prosecution of the case has been
handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Altman.
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