OXNARD : Bank Robber Gets 21-Year Sentence
An Oxnard man has been sentenced to 21 years and 10 months in a federal prison after being convicted of committing three bank robberies in Oxnard and Camarillo last year, FBI officials said.
Richard Basil Bustamante, 50, will also serve five years of probation after completion of his sentence, U.S. District Judge Harry L. Hupp ordered Dec. 3.
Bustamante was on parole for a string of robberies committed in the 1980s when he was arrested early this year as the prime suspect in four bank heists that occurred in Ventura County in 1992, said Charlie J. Parsons, special agent in charge of the Los Angeles office of the FBI.
In July, 1993, a federal jury found him guilty of three of the robberies
They occurred at the Great Western Bank on Oxnard Boulevard in Oxnard on Nov. 17; at the American Savings Bank on South A Street in Oxnard on Nov. 18; and at Ventura County National Bank on Las Posas Road in Camarillo on Dec. 14.
Police were tipped off to Bustamante’s identity and whereabouts after a picture of him holding up a bank was published by media in Ventura County in late December, 1992, and early January, 1993, Parsons said.
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