SIMI VALLEY : Bank Robber Gets 4-Year Prison Term

A Simi Valley man was sentenced Monday to four years and three months in federal prison for robbing a bank last year, officials said.

Glenn Ruel Burnett, 45, was sentenced by U. S. District Judge Richard A. Gadbois in Los Angeles, said Charlie J. Parsons, special FBI agent in charge of the case. Burnett had earlier pleaded guilty to robbing the First State Bank of the Oaks at 2455 Sycamore Drive in Simi Valley on July 8.

Bank employees had observed Burnett acting suspiciously and reported him to police. Burnett then left the bank, but returned a short time later, demanded money and displayed a handgun and what he said was a bomb, officials said.

He was arrested a short distance from the bank by Simi Valley police officers.

After his prison term, Burnett will serve three years in a work-furlough program, Gadbois said.