Article: 'GOOFY HAT BANDIT' SENTENCED TO 16 YEARS IN PRISON

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Investigation's Los Angeles Field Office issued the following press release:

A man with a lengthy criminal record that includes two prior convictions for bank robberies has been sentenced to 16 years in federal prison for committing a series of bank robberies that earned him the moniker the "Goofy Hat Bandit."

William Vance Turner, 58, who was residing in Ladera Heights when he was arrested by the FBI in 2007, was sentenced late Monday by United States District Judge Margaret M. Morrow.

Last November, on the morning he was set to go on trial, Turner pleaded guilty to committing six bank robberies in 2006 and 2007. ...

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