'Bearded Bandit' gets time served for 2019 bank robbery

'Bearded Bandit' gets time served for 2019 bank robbery

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A Cranston man who became notorious for robbing several banks in succession has been sentenced in a separate, but related case. Justin Worley, 44, pleaded guilty last fall to holding up an East Providence bank on New Year's Eve 2019. Prosecutors said he and Nicholas Lage, 39, entered the TD Bank on Pawtucket Avenue and ordered the tellers to empty the drawers. Lage was said to be armed with a knife at the time. The two …

'Bearded Bandit' sentenced to time served, supervised release for 2019 bank robbery

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — A Cranston man has been sentenced to time served and supervised release for robbing an East Providence bank on New Year’s Eve in 2019, according to the office of Acting U.S. Attorney Sara Miron Bloom. Justin Worley, 44, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court, and will serve his first six months of supervised release in a residential reentry center and must pay $11,569 in restitution. Worley had been detained since …

'Bearded Bandit' who served time for Seekonk bank robbery sentenced for another heist

SEEKONK — A serial bank robber dubbed the “Bearded Bandit” who struck a town bank over a decade ago during a nine-bank spree has just been sentenced for robbing a bank in neighboring East Providence.

Bearded Bandit sentenced for 2019 robbery

PROVIDENCE – A Cranston man previously referred to as the "Bearded Bandit," and who served more than six years in federal prison for robbing nine banks in 2012, was sentenced last Friday to time served, at 62 months.