TENNESSEE MAN SENTENCED FOR BANK ROBBERY

PRESS RELEASE

Susan W. Brooks, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, announced that WILLIAM HERRELL, 27, formerly of Nashville, Tennessee, was sentenced to 139 months imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young following his guilty plea to bank robbery and use of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. This case was the result of a investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Evansville Police Department.

HERRELL admitted that he participated in the robbery of the 2028 East Division Street, Evansville, Indiana, branch of First Federal Savings Bank on May 3, 2005, with TERRENCE MACKEY. HERRELL admitted entering the bank and forcing tellers at gun point to surrender $14,522 of the bank’s money. HERRELL and MACKEY fled from the bank in a white corvette driven by HERRELL. After a chase involving numerous police officers, HERRELL and MACKEY were arrested in Henderson, Kentucky, where they crashed the corvette. All the money taken from the bank was recovered at the location of the arrest. MACKEY was sentenced to 355 months imprisonment in October, 2005 for his role in the offense.

According to Assistant United States Attorney Todd S. Shellenbarger, who prosecuted the case for the government, Judge Young also imposed 3 years supervised release following HERRELL’s release from imprisonment.

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