DocM Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 http://m.detnews.com/nation/article?a=2014304170143&f=1212 Ex-con said to be homesick for prison gets 3? years Chicago ? -- An ex-con who spent most of his adult life behind bars on Thursday got what he said he wanted for robbing a suburban Chicago bank. The 74-year-old gets to go back to the place he called home -- prison. Telling Walter Unbehaun he frightened a teller by showing her a revolver tucked in his waistband during the 2013 heist, a federal judge imposed a 3 1 / 2year prison sentence, citing a rap sheet that includes crimes from home invasion to kidnapping. "This is not the first time you've inspired fear," Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman said, scolding the high-school dropout and part-time bathtub repairman. As he had on the day he robbed the bank, Unbehaun gripped a cane as he hobbled to a podium to make a brief statement. He didn't withdraw his wish to go to prison, though he said, "I don't want to die in prison." "My crime is bad, there ain't no doubt," he said calmly. "I just wanna be like everybody else." Boredom and loneliness, defense filings said, had partly led Unbehaun to conclude that a life on the inside was preferable to life outside. No family or friends of Unbehaun attended Thursday's hearing in Chicago. Listening to the proceedings, he fidgeted and rubbed his forearms, both of which sported tattoos. He occasionally nodded as his lawyer spoke. Last year, he walked into the bank with a cane but no disguise, displayed the loaded gun and told the teller, "I don't want to hurt you." With $4,178 in loot, he drove to a nearby motel and waited for police to arrive. When they did, the bald, portly Unbehaun dropped his cane, raised his hands and startled police by his apparent joy at getting nabbed. At his initial court appearance, he also confounded his lawyer. "His first words were, 'I just want to go home," that same attorney, Richard McLeese, told the court Thursday. > Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjak Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 I don't know about anyone else but "not the first time you've inspired fear" and "part-time bathtub repairman" made me think of something like this: lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerino Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 nuff said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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