A man who escaped from jail, then robbed banks in Georgia, North Carolina, West Virginia and Michigan, was sentenced Thursday to two life sentences.
Anthony Ray Artrip, 38, of Ashland, Ky., who pleaded guilty in June, does not have the possibility of release under the federal "three strikes" law. In his sentencing, in U.S. District Court in Rome, he also was ordered to pay $100,000 in restitution to the banks he robbed.
Prosecutors said Artrip escaped from the Grant County Detention Center in Williamstown, Ky., in June 2007. On Sept. 27 of that year, he walked into a Regions Bank in Calhoun, Ga., pointed a handgun at tellers and left with nearly $20,000, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said Artrip robbed four other banks at gunpoint. He was captured in October 2007 in Pittsburgh, after being placed on the U.S. Marshal's Most Wanted List and featured on "America's Most Wanted."
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