{"id":164589,"date":"2023-03-30T03:41:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T08:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=164589"},"modified":"2023-03-30T03:41:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T08:41:29","slug":"bank-robber-sentenced-in-federal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/03\/30\/bank-robber-sentenced-in-federal-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank robber sentenced in federal court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FORT WAYNE (IN) &#8212; An Ohio City man has been sentenced to 71 months in a federal prison for holding up six banks and trying to rob another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bart Ely, 51, was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Fort Wayne. In a deal with federal prosecutors, he pleaded guilty to a charge of bank robbery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was accused of robbing banks in Bluffton, Indiana, Troy, Dublin, Lima, Fort Wayne and Englewood between June 4-22, 2021. A robbery attempt at a bank in Tipp City was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ely is facing more prison time, after pleading guilty to a bank robbery charge in U.S. District Court of Southern Ohio. He\u2019ll be sentenced next month and any prison term will be served consecutively with the one imposed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff FORT WAYNE (IN) &#8212; An Ohio City man has been sentenced to 71 months in a federal prison for holding up six banks and trying to rob another. Bart Ely, 51, was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Fort Wayne. In a deal with federal prosecutors, he pleaded guilty to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 19:23:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164590,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164589\/revisions\/164590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}