
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, October 5, 1995                   TAG: 9510050047
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: JAN VERTEFEUILLE
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

35-YEAR-OLD PLEADS GUILTY TO BANK ROBBERY

The man who held up a First Union National Bank branch last year pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Roanoke to bank robbery. A charge of bank larceny was dismissed.

Roosevelt Hairston Jr., 35, faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

He was accused of stealing $3,859, a figure that came from the bank, but said in court that he got only about $2,300.

Hairston robbed the bank on U.S. 460 in Northeast Roanoke on March 11, 1994. He handed a teller a yellow container to fill with money and a note that said he had a gun.

He denied actually having a gun, and no one in the bank saw one.

by CNB