Man Sentenced for Bank Robbery
Posted/updated on: December 3, 2010 at 4:56 pm
TYLER – A 61-year-old Smith County man, formerly of Arkansas, has been sentenced to federal prison for bank robbery in the Eastern District of Texas. Eddie Ray Myers pleaded guilty on Sep. 7, 2010, to bank robbery and was sentenced Thursday in Tyler to 46 months in federal prison. Myers was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $1,630.00. According to information presented in court, on July 14, 2010, Myers entered the lobby of the BBVA Compass Bank on South Broadway in Tyler and handed the teller a note stating, “No alarms – no dye packs, All the money in the sack I have a gun.” Myers was indicted by a federal grand jury on Aug. 4, 2010, and charged with bank robbery.
