A 64-year-old man who won a new trial on kidnapping an Anaheim bank worker to help him steal more than $167,000 was convicted Thursday in a retrial.
Charles Craig Clements was previously convicted of the Jan. 27, 2009, bank heist, but won a new trial on kidnapping charges from the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in October of last year because of the misuse of a jailhouse snitch in the prosecution.
“This guy right here, Charles Clements, you’re going to hear robbed the Bank of the West,” Deputy District Attorney Rebecca Garcia said in her opening statement of the retrial. “And he did it by kidnapping two women.”…