Armored Car Robber Gets 8-Year Sentence
A man who robbed an armored car and eluded police for two years before arranging to surrender at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison and ordered to repay $651,000.
Edward Leigh Hunt Jr., 26, of Wilmington, Del., admitted stealing $651,000 from a Brooks armored car in downtown Philadelphia on Jan. 26, 1988. The son of a corporate attorney, Hunt was not heard from until two years later when he wrote a letter to the Wilmington News Journal in Delaware. In the letter, Hunt said he had been living in Southern California for two years and had gambled away the money.
He surrendered to FBI agents in Los Angeles--and before a large contingent of media--on the second anniversary of the robbery.
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