COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- The FBI says a man who robbed 11 banks in three states and was known as the "Sock Hat Bandit" has been sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison.
A statement from the FBI office in Louisville says U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning sentenced 33-year-old Brian Michael Parnell on Thursday for robberies that were committed over a three-month span last year in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana.
Parnell was arrested in June 2015 after a robbery at a Fifth-Third bank in northern Kentucky. The FBI says it then connected him to a series of other robberies in which the suspect covered his head with knitted hats. In all, the FBI says Parnell took more than $27,000.
U.S. Attorney spokesman Kyle Edelen says Parnell pleaded guilty in November to the robberies.
