
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, May 26, 1994                   TAG: 9405260102
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
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BANK ROBBER GETS 5-YEAR SENTENCE

A man who robbed three banks last year - two in Roanoke and one in Ohio - was sentenced to five years in prison and fined $1,000 Wednesday.

Brian Edward Hall, of 10th Street Northwest in Roanoke, admitted holding up the First National Bank of Rocky Mount's Hershberger Road branch on Nov. 22 and the Crestar Bank branch on Melrose Avenue on Nov. 30.

In exchange for Hall's pleading guilty to the first robbery, federal prosecutors dropped the second charge.

Hall, 25, took $2,705 in the first robbery and $2,869 in the second. He told U.S. District Judge James Turk that he robbed the banks to support a crack cocaine habit.

Hall was arrested Dec. 1 and entered a guilty plea in March.

by CNB