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Bank robber: I did it to get away from my wife
MSNBC ^
| September 2, 2009
| Associated Press
Posted on 09/02/2009 5:41:22 PM PDT by Melissa 24
LANCASTER, Pa. - A Pennsylvania man said he robbed a bank in 2007 to go to jail and get away from his overbearing wife. At a sentencing hearing Monday, 39-year-old Anthony Miller said he robbed a bank in Ephrata because he wanted to leave his then-wife but she had threatened to commit suicide if he did. Defense attorney Robert Beyer said Miller approached tellers with a BB gun, asked for money and told them to call the police. He said Miller even asked for updates on their efforts to reach authorities. Miller pleaded guilty in June. Lancaster County Judge Louis Farina sentenced him to three to six years in prison on Monday. Beyer said the couple divorced within the last year.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: bankrobbery; crime; marriage
Is divorce not legal in Pa?
To: Melissa 24
If he’d shot her when he first wanted to, he’d have been out by now.
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posted on
09/02/2009 5:45:10 PM PDT
by
umgud
(Look to gov't to solve your everday problems and they'll control your everday life.)
To: Melissa 24
Jail, or a studio apartment.
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posted on
09/02/2009 5:46:08 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: Melissa 24
Online divorce $200......seems easier that jail.
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posted on
09/02/2009 5:46:16 PM PDT
by
svcw
(Legalism reinforces self-righteousness - it communicates to you the good news of your own goodness)
To: Melissa 24
because he wanted to leave his then-wife but she had threatened to commit suicide if he did.Am I just not seeing the down side?
/johnny
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posted on
09/02/2009 5:46:20 PM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: JRandomFreeper
Life Insurance doesn’t payout for suicide?
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posted on
09/02/2009 5:48:34 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: JRandomFreeper
Am I just not seeing the down side? LOL
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posted on
09/02/2009 5:51:14 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
To: Melissa 24
Just wait until he gets out, I'll show him!!!!
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posted on
09/02/2009 5:52:23 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: Melissa 24
Instead of driving to the local attorney’s office, he drives to a bank and botches a robbery, then blames his wife? Sounds like his vault is empty.
To: Melissa 24
I did a lot of things to get rid of my ex-wife, including seeing a girlfriend ride off into the sunset in a huff because I volunteered to drive the U-Haul with my estranged wife's belongings to her new place three hundred miles away (she didn't understand how cathartic it was - knowing she was in New Jersey and I was in Virginia was like loosening my belt after a Thanksgiving dinner). But robbing a bank was
NOT in my manifesto for such a relatively simple task. LOL
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posted on
09/02/2009 5:57:25 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(Ted Nugent for Attorney General '12. You Know You Want It.)
To: Viking2002
And I bet you never regretted the choice you made.
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posted on
09/02/2009 6:21:10 PM PDT
by
Melissa 24
(I Brake For Epiphanies)
To: JRandomFreeper
Am I just not seeing the down side? Yeah. That's what I call being a good sport about it all.
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posted on
09/02/2009 6:35:40 PM PDT
by
subterfuge
(BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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