NewsDecember 24, 2002
'Potbellied Bandit' sentenced to 10 years in prison
OWENSBORO, Ky. -- The "Potbellied Bandit" was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday and ordered to repay more than $86,000 for a string of bank robberies in seven states. The 5-foot-11, 260-pound Douglas Lee Poling got his nickname after a surveillance video showed him with his belly bared during a holdup in Kentucky...
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OWENSBORO, Ky. -- The "Potbellied Bandit" was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday and ordered to repay more than $86,000 for a string of bank robberies in seven states.
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The 5-foot-11, 260-pound Douglas Lee Poling got his nickname after a surveillance video showed him with his belly bared during a holdup in Kentucky.
He was captured a year ago. He admitted robbing 17 banks and credit unions in Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Tennessee and South Carolina.
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