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Clumsy robber gets prison time for holding up Missouri bank

October 21, 2016 By Missourinet Contributor

Brett Stevens of KKDY Ozark Radio Network contributed to this story

A Memphis, Tennessee man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison without a chance for parole for robbing a southern Missouri bank last year. Bobby Yates, 26, was also ordered to pay $2,325 in restitution – the amount he stole from the Great Southern Bank in Thayer in April of last year.

Clumsy robber gets prison time for holding up Missouri bank

Clumsy robber gets prison time for holding up Missouri bank

Authorities say Yates asked a teller for a deposit slip, which he used to write a note demanding the teller give him money. As he was leaving the building, he ran into a door jam and dropped what appeared to be a handgun. Yates picked it up but a broken piece was left behind. It was later determined to be a piece from an Airsoft gun, a realistic-looking weapon not typically designed to be lethal.

Yates was later arrested after he robbed a bank in Millington, Tennessee.

The FBI and the Missouri Highway Patrol assisted the Thayer Police Department in their investigation.

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