THOUSAND OAKS : Bank Robber Gets 2 1/2-Year Sentence
A Thousand Oaks man has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for his role in a string of 15 bank robberies in Ventura and Los Angeles counties, the FBI announced on Monday.
Marc Alan Miller, 23, was arrested Aug. 9, one day after the FBI arrested his purported crime partner, 33-year-old Arthur Lara, also of Thousand Oaks, said Charlie J. Parsons, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles office.
Miller pleaded guilty in October to a single count of bank robbery, stemming from the Aug. 4 robbery of a Bank of America branch in Newhall, Parsons said.
On Monday, Judge Terry J. Hatter sentenced Miller to 30 months in federal prison, three years probation and ordered him to make restitution of $1,489.
Miller was charged with just one count of bank robbery because that was the only time he was the “inside man,” said FBI Special Agent Gary Auer. “The government is alleging that Lara was the individual who (usually) entered the bank and actually committed the robberies,” Auer said.
The FBI believes Miller was the driver during the other robberies, he said.
Miller and Lara are accused of starting their bank robbery spree last April at a Citibank branch in Sherman Oaks.
Lara is scheduled to go to trial Feb. 1 in Los Angeles.
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