Date: 05-04-2014

Case Style: United States of America v. Jimmy Dawson Cunningham, Jr.

Case Number: 2:13-cr-00459-IPJ-JHE

Judge: Joseph P. Montminy

Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Jefferson County

Plaintiff's Attorney: John B Felton, Joseph Paul Montminy and Joyce White Vance

Defendant's Attorney: Rick L Burgess, Melanie Keiper and Kevin L Butler - FPD

Description: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal judge today sentenced a Lee County man to eight years and four months in prison for a 2013 string of bank robberies in North Alabama, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.

JIMMY DAWSON CUNNINGHAM JR., 39, of Salem, Ala., pleaded guilty in January to five bank robberies between Jan. 3, 2013, and Jan. 14, 2013. The banks robbed over those 12 days were: National Bank of Commerce, Shades Creek Parkway, Birmingham; PNC Bank, Euclid Avenue, Mountain Brook; First Community Bank, Marktplatz Center, Cullman; Regions Bank, Culver Road, Mountain Brook; and Union State Bank, Pelham Parkway, Pelham.

U.S. District Judge Inge P. Johnson sentenced Cunningham to prison and ordered him to pay $14,780 in restitution to the four banks that lost money in his robberies. Cunningham took money in all five robberies, but the money he robbed from First Community Bank in Cullman was recovered following the crime.

The FBI, in conjunction with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and the Mountain Brook, Cullman and Pelham police departments, investigated the case, which Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph P. Montminy prosecuted.

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