LOS ANGELES — A Southern California financial institution robber who gleefully yelled “John Dillinger lives!” throughout a holdup was sentenced to just about 20 years in federal jail Tuesday, prosecutors stated.
Todd Cannady, 61, of Palm Springs, was sentenced for a 2021 holdup however he acknowledged robbing a complete of 10 banks in Southern California from 2018 to 2021, based on a press release from the U.S. lawyer’s workplace.
Cannady pleaded responsible final yr to robbing a Chase Financial institution department utilizing a “ghost gun”” on July 1, 2021 within the Riverside County metropolis of Jurupa Valley.
He was arrested after a high-speed chase in a rented automobile throughout which he hit a number of different autos and crashed on a freeway, authorities stated.
When he pleaded responsible, Cannady additionally acknowledged robbing 9 banks in Manhattan Seaside, Century Metropolis, Rancho Mirage, Torrance, Banning and Carson, prosecutors stated.
He robbed the identical Wells Fargo Financial institution department in Rancho Mirage twice, authorities stated.
In complete, he stole almost $758,000, authorities stated.
The holdups started solely 4 months after Cannady was launched from state jail, prosecutors stated. He spent greater than twenty years behind bars for a 1992 armed financial institution theft and a 1982 conviction for robbing individuals at gunpoint in Los Angeles shops, authorities stated.
From 1982 to 2021, Cannady “dedicated armed robberies of people or banks each time he was not incarcerated,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum.
Cannady “seemingly took nice pleasure in his crimes,” yelling “John Dillinger Lives” throughout a 2019 holdup, based on the memorandum.