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'Band-Aid Bandit' gets 149yrs
29/06/2007 21:09 - (SA)
Tampa - The serial bank robber known as the Band-Aid Bandit for his habit of wearing bandages to mask his distinctive facial mole, was sentenced to more than 149 years in prison on Friday.
"It's a life sentence and it should be," US District Judge Steven D Merryday said in giving Rafael Angel Rondon the maximum sentence of 149½ years for his role in six bank robberies.
Authorities said Rondon, 51, was responsible for heists at 39 banks from Sarasota to Gainesville from 2000 through 2006, netting nearly $1m.
He and his brother-in-law were prosecuted in April for six of the robberies. A jury convicted them of six counts of armed bank robbery, six counts of illegal use of a firearm and one count of conspiracy.
The judge ordered both men to pay $676 000 in restitution. His brother-in-law was sentenced to more than 126 years' prison.
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