Career offender Steven L. Jackson was sentenced today for armed bank robbery.
Jackson, who has been convicted on robbery charges multiple times since the 1980s, was given more than 24 years of jail time for recidivist armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during a violent crime, according to U.S Attorney Sally Yates’ office, charges he pleaded guilty to in 2012.
In April 2009 Jackson entered a Sandy Springs BB&T bank by breaking through a window before the bank opened. Once inside, Jackson held a gun on the branch manager and two other employees who, on his orders, took him to the vault where he stole more than $16,000, according to Yates. He then fled the scene.
Jackson has previously faced a four-year sentence for robbery in May 1986, an eight-year sentence for conspiracy to commit armed robbery in 1997 and a 20-year sentence in July 1999 for robbery.
He is to follow up his sentence with five years of supervised release and was ordered to pay restitution.
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