MUSCATINE, Iowa (KWQC) – An Indiana man was sentenced to life in prison for bank robbery.
Thomas Alexander Davis III, 40, of Indiana was sentenced Thursday, June 16, 2016. A jury found Davis guilty on February 11, 2016. Davis had been previously convicted in 1995 of armed bank robbery in southern Indiana, and robbery with a deadly weapon in Hancock, Indiana.
Because these two prior robbery convictions qualified as ‘serious violent felonies’ under a federal sentencing statute, this third conviction for robbery of the US Bank mandated life in prison.
The evidence at trial in this case showed that on November 28, 2012, Davis entered the US Bank in Muscatine. Davis presented the teller with a black bag with an Angry Birds cartoon, demanded money, and showed a handgun. The teller placed the money in the bag. Davis fled the bank and escaped in a black Cadillac driven by Stacey Fincher, of Indiana. Davis and Fincher drove back to Indiana. Davis was arrested on February 12, 2015, in Indiana.
On April 8, 2016, Stacey Fincher was sentenced to a deferred judgment in Muscatine County District Court after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit a forcible felony.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Muscatine Police Department, and prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.
