CHARLOTTE (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A man has been sentenced for allegedly using a teenager to rob nearly $20,000 from a bank, according to the Department of Justice.
On February 25, 32-year-old Michael Malik Pringle was sentenced to seven years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence and aiding and abetting.
On May 2, 2024, Pringle picked up a 16-year-old boy in a rented vehicle. According to court documents, Pringle and the minor previously discussed robbing a bank and had agreed to do it on that date.
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Pringle and the boy went to the Wells Fargo on the 9400 block of Pineville-Matthews Road after unsuccessfully trying to rob a bank before that. The two parked in a lot near the bank…