A convicted serial bank robber begged a federal judge to keep him locked up for the maximum term after striking three establishments in Florida — just two weeks after he was released from prison for another bank robbery.
Terry Meach, 42, was sentenced last Thursday to 20 years in federal prison — the maximum for bank robbery — after pressing that extensive time behind bars would not only curb his urges and normalize his life but improve the public’s safety.
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The serial thief targeted three banks just two weeks after he was released from federal prison for bank robbery. Bloomberg via Getty Images
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“Please, could you consider giving me the max or the most time so that I can get back to my normal life in a controlled environment? Prison keeps me from my own self-destruction and keeps the outside community safer,” the repeat offender wrote in a letter to US District Court Judge Rodney Smith in September, according to the Miami Herald.
“I know I’m going to mess up again. I always have the same results, 100% truth. I love the life I have in prison. I made a family and good jobs. Please, understand me. I know right from wrong, and I’m not crazy at all,” Meach added. “I just know myself better than anyone else does.”
The thief confessed to stealing $2,419 from a Truist Bank in Hollywood on Feb. 23 after he demanded money from a teller and claimed he had a gun, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida said in a news release.
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Terry Meach, 42, was sentenced last Thursday to 20 years in federal prison — the maximum for bank robbery — after pressing that extensive time behind bars would not only curb his urges and normalize his life but improve the public’s safety.
The serial thief targeted three banks just two weeks after he was released from federal prison for bank robbery. Bloomberg via Getty Images
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“Please, could you consider giving me the max or the most time so that I can get back to my normal life in a controlled environment? Prison keeps me from my own self-destruction and keeps the outside community safer,” the repeat offender wrote in a letter to US District Court Judge Rodney Smith in September, according to the Miami Herald.
“I know I’m going to mess up again. I always have the same results, 100% truth. I love the life I have in prison. I made a family and good jobs. Please, understand me. I know right from wrong, and I’m not crazy at all,” Meach added. “I just know myself better than anyone else does.”
The thief confessed to stealing $2,419 from a Truist Bank in Hollywood on Feb. 23 after he demanded money from a teller and claimed he had a gun, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida said in a news release.
Serial bank robber begs federal judge to keep him locked up after string of Florida thefts: ‘I love the life I have in prison’
“Please, could you consider giving me the max or the most time so that I can get back to my normal life in a controlled environment?” the serial bank robber pleaded to a judge.
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