OXNARD : Bank Robber Gets 14-Year Sentence
A former Oxnard man charged with four 1989 bank robberies in Ventura County and San Diego was sentenced Monday to two concurrent 14-year terms in federal prison, authorities said.
Charles F. Moorman, 42, was indicted in May in connection with robberies at a Security Pacific Bank in Oxnard and Bank of A. Levy branches in Oxnard and Ventura over a 15-day period in November, 1989.
A surveillance camera photo published in Ventura County newspapers after the first robbery led to identification of Moorman as a suspect, and FBI agents found him in state custody on unrelated burglary charges in San Diego, where he had robbed another bank before his arrest, said Gary Auer, special agent in charge of the Ventura FBI office.
Auer said that Moorman pleaded guilty to the Security Pacific robbery in August and that the charges were dropped on the Bank of A. Levy robberies. U. S. District Judge James M. Ideman sentenced Moorman to the 14-year term in federal custody followed by a three-year supervised release. Moorman received the same sentence, to run concurrently, for the San Diego bank robbery, authorities said.
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