Fedora Bandit going to prison for 9 years

David Griffith Osborne — aka the Fedora Bandit — was sentenced today to nine years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for three counts of armed bank robbery.

The 75-year-old former Carson City resident earlier this year pleaded guilty to several bank robberies.

He robbed:

• Bank of the West, 2160 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe, Feb. 18, 2010;
• Bank of the West, 200 Bear Street, Kings Beach, March 9, 2010;
• Bank of the West, 34 East Gridley Road, Gridley, April 26, 2010;
• American River Bank, 9750 Business Park Drive, Rancho Cordova, June 3, 2010;
• Chase Bank, 6669 Clark Road, Paradise, June 29, 2010.
• Bank of the West, 736 Taylorville Road, Grass Valley, December 22, 2009 and March 31, 2010.

Osborne will be required to pay $55,929 in restitution for the robberies.

In each of his seven robberies, Osborne wore a hat, sunglasses, a fake mustache and goatee, and demanded money while brandishing a firearm. Osborne was identified on surveillance images, and after the June 29, 2010, robbery of the Paradise Bank, his DNA was recovered from an abandoned bicycle that he used as a getaway vehicle.

Osborne also confessed to the seven armed robberies and also admitted that he had robbed a Bank of the West branch on 2976 North Carson St. in Carson City.

— Lake Tahoe News staff report