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Men sentenced on robbery, sex offender charges
HUNTINGTON -- U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers sentenced Julian Tucker, 20, of Huntington on Monday to 40 months in prison for bank robbery.
Tucker pleaded guilty in March, admitting he robbed a BB&T Bank branch on Hal Greer Boulevard on Nov. 14, 2007, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of West Virginia.
Tucker handed the bank teller a note stating that he had a gun. The teller gave Tucker $1,800 in cash and he fled on foot, the release said. Tucker was apprehended following a joint investigation by the Huntington Police Department and the FBI. Along with prison time, he was ordered to pay restitution to the bank for the money stolen.
In a separate case Chambers sentenced Anthony Joseph Cronin, also known as Alan L. Burke, on Monday to 18 months in prison for failure to register as a sex offender.
Cronin pleaded guilty in April. In July 2000, he was convicted in Ohio of corruption of a minor, and at that time was required to register as a sex offender. Some time after May 4, 2007, Cronin moved to West Virginia and failed to register as a sex offender as required by the Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act. The U.S. Marshal Service and the U.S. Social Security Administration's Office of Inspector General conducted the investigation.
In a separate case, Eric Scott Wood, 25, of Hurricane, W.Va., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David A. Faber to 12 months in prison for the robbery of a pharmacy.
On July 15, 2007, Wood hid in the Rite Aid Pharmacy in Hurricane and waited for the store to close. He then loaded as much hydrocodone as could into a duffel bag.
He set off an alarm, and officers found him in the pharmacy.
