“Handsome Guy Bandit” Gets 35-Year Prison Term
Posted/updated on: October 30, 2012 at 5:49 pm
DALLAS (AP/Staff) – A judge has handed a 35-year federal prison sentence to a man with Tyler connections who admitted being the “Handsome Guy Bandit.” Steven Ray Milam pleaded guilty in Dallas last May to 11 federal counts of bank robbery, admitting responsibility for 11 North Texas bank holdups. U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay sentenced the 45-year-old on Monday. Reports have listed Milam as having residency in both Tyler and Richardson. The “Handsome Guy Bandit” got his name from tellers at the banks he robbed, who described the mask he wore. Milam was arrested Jan. 3 in Mississippi after a chase on Interstate 10 in which a sheriff shot out a tire on the vehicle Milam was driving. Prosecutors had said Milam could have received from 32 years to life in prison.
