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BANK ROBBERY SUSPECT SENTENCED TO FEDERAL PRISON

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An Omaha man suspected of robbing a bank in Sioux City has been sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison for wielding a gun during another bank robbery in Nebraska.

Federal prosecutors for Nebraska say 38-year-old Thomas Woodard was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Omaha to 100 months in prison.

He was also ordered to pay more than $27,000 in restitution.
Prosecutors say that on December 7th of 2012, Woodard and another man robbed the SAC Federal Credit Union in Plattsmouth.

Woodard and co-defendant Joseph Lanckriet were arrested four years later in Sioux City.

The pair is suspected of committing a robbery here in Sioux City in 2014.