New Orleans Man Sentenced for Armed Bank Robbery
| U.S. Attorney’s Office September 06, 2012 |
NEW ORLEANS—Khadafi Chico Degruy, age 30, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Martin L.C. Feldman to over seven years (85 months) in federal prison for armed bank robbery, announced U.S. Jim Letten. In addition to the 85-month prison sentence, Degruy was ordered to pay $9,533 in restitution to the First Bank & Trust Bank. Upon completion of his prison sentence, Degruy will be required to complete three years of federal supervised release, during which time he will be under federal supervision and risks an additional term of imprisonment should be violate any terms of his supervised release.
On May 2, 2012, Degruy pleaded guilty of robbing the First Bank & Trust Bank located at 4550 General DeGaulle Dr. in Algiers, Louisiana, at gunpoint.
This case was investigated by special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation with assistance from the United States Postal Service and was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney’s Rick Veters and Edward Rivera.