After a two-year robbery spree that spanned eleven banks (three of them in Santa Cruz County) in three counties, Peter Klein, the No Face Bandit, was spotted by an off-duty police officer leaving a bank in Gilroy. The former Vice President of the Monterey Pasta Company finally found himself in a noodle.
After a two-year robbery spree that spanned eleven banks (three of them in Santa Cruz County) in three counties, Peter Klein, the No Face Bandit, was spotted by an off-duty police officer leaving a bank in Gilroy. The former Vice President of the Monterey Pasta Company finally found himself in a noodle. Yesterday he was sentenced to twelve years in prison and ordered to pay $360,418 to the banks he had hit. The sum is equivalent to what he had taken at gunpoint. At his trial it was noted that while Klein sometimes threatened to kill people, the most harm he had ever done was forcing bank employees into a vault.
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