(KRON) — A San Francisco man was sentenced Thursday to seven years in federal prison for a string of bank robberies and a carjacking that occurred in late 2024 and early 2025, prosecutors announced Friday.
James Michael Garrison was indicted by a federal grand jury last June and pleaded guilty this past February to three counts of bank robbery and one count of carjacking, the Northern District of California Department of Justice wrote in a news release.
According to the plea agreement and other case documents, the DOJ said, “beginning in December 2024, Garrison embarked on a spree of bank robberies in Rohnert Park, California, and San Francisco, California. Garrison robbed banks in Rohnert Park on December 5, 2024, and January 2, 2025. During those robberies, he demanded cash and threatened to shoot the tellers. Garrison robbed another bank in San Francisco on December 27, 2024, during which he held a knife in his hand and threatened to shoot ‘everybody.’ In total, he stole approximately $20,000 from the three banks.”…