‘Bicycle Bandit’ Gets Life Plus 102 Years
A holdup man known as the Bicycle Bandit was sentenced in Platte City to life in prison plus 102 years after being convicted on evidence that included a $1 bill on which he had scrawled a description of one of the heists.
Miguel Vaca, 45, was found guilty in December of three armed robberies in Kansas City in 2002 -- at a nail salon, at another business and at an apartment where a 13-year-old girl’s birthday party was taking place.
He was dubbed the Bicycle Bandit because witnesses described seeing a masked man fleeing on a mountain bike.
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