Cape Girardeau man sentenced for robbing Lilbourn, Mo., bank last August

Keith D. Moon, 19, of Cape Girardeau was sentenced to 63 months in prison for one felony count of armed bank robbery, according to a news release from federal prosecutor Catherine Hanaway's office.

On Aug. 17, Moon, Darnell Moon and Lance Lewis robbed a bank in Lilbourn, Mo., using a BB pistol purchased at a Cape Girardeau Wal-Mart on Aug. 16, according to the news release.

The handgun "looked real," one of the bank tellers said.

An audit revealed that $13,729 was taken during the robbery.

The men robbed the Lilbourn bank after a scheme to rob Alliance Bank in Cape Girardeau went awry.

The same day, the three men called in six bomb threats to Cape Girardeau police in an effort to divert attention from a planned robbery of Alliance Bank, 217 N. Kingshighway. They used carbon dioxide cartridges and duct tape purchased at Wal-Mart in Cape Girardeau to make fake bombs that were planted at several locations around town, according to court documents.

The men first went to Alliance Bank, but the number of people there made them change their plans, according to the documents.