Robber of Three Banks Sentenced to 69½ Years
Robbed Republic Bank and Two Branches of PNC Bank in 2006
| U.S. Attorney’s Office May 17, 2010 |
LOUISVILLE, KY—Carter Eubanks, age 54, of Louisville, Kentucky, was sentenced in United States District Court, Louisville, to 69½ years’ imprisonment for armed robbery of three Louisville banks, United States Attorney David J. Hale of the Western District of Kentucky announced today. Eubanks was also sentenced to five years’ supervised release following imprisonment. Eubanks was sentenced by Thomas B. Russell, Chief Judge, United States District Court. There is no parole in the federal judicial system. In addition, restitution in the amount of $72,521 was imposed.
Eubanks was found guilty by a jury in February of robbing on March 24, 2006, PNC Bank, 9700 Linn Station Road; on April 17, 2006, Republic Bank, 4921 Brownsboro Road; and on May 23, 2006, PNC Bank, 4810 Brownsboro Road. He was also convicted of using a firearm in each robbery and of illegally possessing a firearm based upon his having been previously convicted of a felony offense. He had prior convictions of armed robbery of a cab driver in Michigan in 1979 for which he received a sentence of 5-20 years, and of robbing three banks in Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1983 for which he received sentences totaling 45 years. He was on parole supervision at the time of the Louisville robberies. After the commission of the bank robberies in Louisville, he robbed a bank in Ridgeland, Mississippi. For that robbery, he received a state sentence of 15 years in 2007. The Louisville robberies were solved principally by a bank customer at the third bank who followed Eubanks on foot and obtained his license plate number. Eubanks then fled to Mississippi. He is being returned to Mississippi to finish serving his fifteen-year state sentence before he serves his federal life sentence.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys James H. Barr and Daniel Kinnicutt, and it was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Louisville Metro Police Department and the Jeffersontown Police Department.