A Kansas City, Kan., man who was on supervised release for a 2009 bank robbery conviction pleaded guilty to robbing two more banks.
Antonio P. Gaitan, 36, Kansas City, Kan., pleaded guilty on Feb. 17 in the U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Mo. According to the U.S. attorney’s office in the Western District of Missouri, Gaitan pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery in an indictment returned in the Western District of Missouri and one count of bank robbery in an indictment in Kansas.
By pleading guilty, Gaitan admitted that he stole $4,114 from Country Club Bank, 1 Ward Parkway, Kansas City, Mo., on April 2, 2014. Gaitan also admitted that he stole $5,130 from Truity Credit Union in Lawrence, Kan., on April 5, 2014.
Gaitan was identified from surveillance photos from the Country Club Bank robbery, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. Investigators learned that Gaitan was traveling to Nebraska, and he was arrested by authorities in that state, the U.S. attorney’s office stated.
Gaitan recently had escaped from custody at Heartland Center for Behavioral Change after being sentenced to five years in prison and three years of supervised release for a 2009 bank robbery, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. His supervised release was revoked by the court.
Under the terms of the plea agreement, Gaitan will be sentenced to 10 years in federal prison without parole for the bank robberies, plus a consecutive revocation sentence of 24 to 31 months for violating his supervised release, the U.S. attorney’s office stated. Gaitan must pay $9,244 in restitution.
This case was prosecuted by Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Leena Ramana. It was investigated by the FBI, the Kansas City, Mo., Police Department, the Lawrence, Kan., Police Department and the Omaha, Neb., Police Department.