Automatic-Teller Robber Gets 28 Years in Prison
A cocaine addict who went on a crime spree in Los Angeles, robbing or trying to rob 37 people at automatic teller machines--believed to be a record--was sentenced Tuesday to 28 years in prison.
Curtis Taylor, 34, could have been sentenced to more than 65 years in prison because he used the threat of a gun, but he pleaded guilty to 37 robbery and attempted robbery charges under an agreement with prosecutors.
“You probably had more bankers afraid of you than Charles Keating out there,” Superior Court Judge J.D. Smith said before sentencing Taylor. Keating is the indicted former head of the defunct Lincoln Savings, who, with his associates, is accused of defrauding 23,000 people, most of them seniors, out of $250 million in the sale of junk bonds.
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