Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Man, 20, pleads guilty in 2nd of 3 bank cases
A North Carolina man already serving prison time for robbing a Roanoke bank pleaded guilty Tuesday to also robbing a Bedford County bank.
William M. Smitherman, 20, of Clemmons, N.C., additionally is accused of robbing a bank in Galax.
Authorities said that Smitherman went on a bank-robbing spree early last year, robbing First Citizens banks in Galax and Roanoke in January 2009, then a SunTrust bank in Forest the next month.
Smitherman pleaded guilty in October to robbing the Roanoke bank and was sentenced to two years and 11 months in prison.
A sentencing date has not yet been set in Bedford County Circuit Court, where he pleaded guilty Tuesday. He is scheduled to appear in court in Carroll County on March 25 in connection with the Galax robbery.
-- Rex Bowman
William M. Smitherman, 20, of Clemmons, N.C., additionally is accused of robbing a bank in Galax.
Authorities said that Smitherman went on a bank-robbing spree early last year, robbing First Citizens banks in Galax and Roanoke in January 2009, then a SunTrust bank in Forest the next month.
Smitherman pleaded guilty in October to robbing the Roanoke bank and was sentenced to two years and 11 months in prison.
A sentencing date has not yet been set in Bedford County Circuit Court, where he pleaded guilty Tuesday. He is scheduled to appear in court in Carroll County on March 25 in connection with the Galax robbery.
-- Rex Bowman
