Wilkes-Barre Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Robbing Credit Union
| U.S. Attorney’s Office May 21, 2010 |
Dennis C. Pfannenschmidt, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a Wilkes-Barre man who admitted to robbing the Choice One Federal Credit Union on Hazle Street in Wilkes-Barre on July 23, 2008, was sentenced Wednesday to serve 10 years in federal prison by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley.
Pfannenschmidt stated that Leon Stanford, age 42, previously pleaded guilty to taking $920 in cash from the credit union after handing a teller a note that demanded money and claimed that Stanford had a bomb.
Stanford was indicted by a federal grand jury in August 2008, as a result of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Wilkes-Barre Police.
Judge Munley also ordered that Stanford serve three years on supervised release following his release from prison, pay a $100 special assessment, and pay restitution in the amount of $920.
Pfannenschmidt noted that Assistant United States Attorney Francis P. Sempa prosecuted the case.