MIAMI, Fla. (Gray News) – A serial bank robber in Florida pleaded to a judge for the harshest jail sentence possible, according to the Miami Herald.
Terry Meach, 43, pleaded guilty to two counts of bank robbery and one count of attempted bank robbery earlier this year, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a news release.
The Miami Herald reported that Meach asked the judge to consider giving him the max time so he could get his life “back to normal” in a “controlled environment.”
Meach told the judge if he were released from prison he would continue to rob banks, the Herald wrote.
Meach admitted he demanded money from a Truist Bank in Hollywood, Florida on Feb. 23, 2024, and claimed he had a gun. The teller complied and gave him $2,419.
Four days later, he approached a teller at a Fifth Third Bank in Fort Lauderdale and said words to the effect of “give me the money, I have a bomb.”
According to a news release, the teller backed away and Meach ran away without money but went to a Truist Bank about 100 yards down the street. He made off with $2,379 from that bank.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said prior to robbing the banks in February, Meach had been convicted of robbing or attempting to rob four other banks charged in two separate federal cases.
Eight days after being released from prison for the first conviction, he robbed two banks again. He was convicted and sentenced to prison for those robberies as well. Meach had most recently been released from prison on Feb. 9, 2024.
Two weeks later, Meach committed the first of the robberies for which he was sentenced in this case, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
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