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60-year-old man sentenced for March 2020 bank robbery in Coralville

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March 26th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – A Coralville man has been sentenced to more than six and a half years in prison for robbing an eastern Iowa bank. Sixty-year-old Aquinas Lenell Jackson, Senior pleaded guilty to robbing the U-S Bank in Coralville last March. Prosecutors say Jackson passed a threatening note to a bank teller, demanding money and saying he had a gun.

Jackson ran from the scene, but was captured by police. According to The Cedar Rapids Gazette, the police report indicated Jackson had 43-hundred dollars — and the note he passed to the bank teller — when he was arrested.