RALEIGH — A federal judge sentenced 24-year-old Victor Antwan Perez to 11 years in federal prison for armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence after a federal jury convicted him earlier this year, prosecutors announced Friday.
“Crime doesn’t pay,” U.S. Attorney Ellis Boyle said in a news release. “If you try to steal money from a bank while terrorizing the nice employees and innocent customers, you deserve to go to prison for a long time. He will spend 11 years reconsidering his antisocial behavior and hopefully become a productive member of society.”
According to court records and evidence presented at trial, Perez entered the PNC Bank in Zebulon on the morning of Feb. 7, 2024, wearing a ski mask with a distinctive pattern, a black jacket, gray pants, black latex gloves, lavender Crocs and a black handgun…