A 31-year-old Korean American man has been sentenced to 71 months in federal prison for a series of bank robberies in Texas.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas, Kyung Heo pleaded guilty to bank robbery and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant, III on September 30, 2025.
Court filings show that on November 18, 2022, Heo entered a Comerica Bank on State Highway 121 in Lewisville. After being told a cashier’s check could only be processed for clients, he pulled out a handgun, threatened the manager and employees, and stole $13,000.
On April 6, 2023, Heo robbed an American National Bank branch in Flower Mound, where he jumped over the counter with a handgun and forced tellers to empty their cash drawers. Investigators later recovered a plastic bag with $18,943 in a drainage ditch. The bank reported additional losses, bringing the total amount stolen from that robbery to $29,151, according to the DOJ…