LAS VEGAS, Nev. – A Las Vegas man who robbed a bank in the
Southern Highlands area after escaping from a Bureau of Prisons facility in
Arizona was sentenced today to 125 months in prison and three years of supervised
release, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
Richard Lee Canterbury, 68, was convicted by a jury in
February of one count of bank robbery. United States District Judge Kent J.
Dawson presided over the two-day trial and sentencing hearing.
According to court documents, on March 16, 2016, Canterbury
entered a Nevada State Bank on Southern Highlands Parkway in Las Vegas wearing
a gray “fisherman” style hat, dark glasses, and a blue and white striped long
sleeve shirt under a gray zip up vest, carrying a blue zip top bank bag. He
approached a teller and showed a handwritten note which stated: “This Is A
Robbery No Tricks Loose Bills Only Cooperate No One Gets Hurt Otherwise
Everyone Dies.” The teller placed approximately $1,901 and a GPS tracking
device into the bag. Canterbury left the bank with the bag containing the bank
money and the tracking device.
Shortly after the robbery, Las Vegas Metropolitan PoliceDepartment officers, using information from the GPS tracker and the suspect’s
description provided by the bank teller, located and stopped Canterbury’s
vehicle. Officers found the stolen bank cash, the bank bag, the note, and the
GPS tracking device inside his vehicle. He was still wearing the clothes that
he wore during the robbery. He was arrested and taken into custody.
Canterbury was serving a 46 month federal sentence for Felon
in Possession of Firearms when he escaped from a Bureau of Prisons facility in
Florence, Arizona, on January 27, 2016.
The case was investigated by the FBI and the Las Vegas
Metropolitan Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Lisa Cartier-Giroux
and Jared L. Grimmer prosecuted the case.
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