Bank robbery accomplice sent back to prison for leaving halfway house
SIOUX CITY -- A Sioux City woman convicted for her role in a bank robbery is headed back to federal prison for leaving town while on supervised rel...
SIOUX CITY -- A Sioux City woman convicted for her role in a bank robbery is headed back to federal prison for leaving town while on supervised release from prison. U.S. District Judge Leonard Strand on Wednesday sentenced Karen Merrick, 39, to 15 months in prison on one count of escape from custody and added the sentence onto the 15 months remaining on her original sentence. Merrick was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Sioux City in January 2020 to 30 months in prison on one count of accessory after the fact for driving the getaway vehicle in a December 2018 robbery of Iowa State Bank in Le Mars, Iowa.