Northeast Ohio man sentenced to prison for violent armed bank robbery

A Cleveland man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of robbing an ATM by terrorizing a service technician at gunpoint in broad daylight, according to the Department of Defense.

Officials said Joel Alonte Travis, 21, was sentenced to 144 months (12 years) in prison by U.S. District Judge Donald C. Nugent after a federal jury found him guilty in April of armed bank robbery and using and carrying a firearm during, and in relation to, a crime of violence.

Travis was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release after imprisonment and pay $112,440 in restitution. Judge Nugent imposed the sentence Aug. 14…

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