BLECKLEY COUNTY, Ga. — A Bleckley County man has been sentenced to federal prison, according to a release from the US Attorney’s Office.
The release says David Wayne Stanley, 59, robbed the Wells Fargo Bank in Savannah, Georgia. They say he claimed to have a gun, and demanded cash from the bank tellers. According to the report, the Chatham County Police Department recognized his car and arrested him at his residence.
Stanley pleaded guilty to the bank robbery. They say he was sentenced to 160 months in prison, along with a $6,677 restitution payment.
He committed the robbery after being sentenced to federal prison for a prior Savannah bank robbery, according to the release. They say he will serve an additional 12 months in prison as a result of multiple infractions.
“It should be abundantly clear that repeated stints in prison have yet to prevent David Wayne Stanley from committing additional violent crimes,” said Jill Steinberg, US Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. “This significant sentence will protect the community while he’s behind bars, and hold him accountable for his most recent crime.”
The release says Stanley has already been convicted to federal prison once before. In 2016, he was arrested for another Savannah bank robbery. According to the release, he was on supervised release at the time of his 2023 robbery. They say Stanley also served time in a state prison in Texas for robbing seven banks in 2009, and he is currently facing charges for 2023 bank robberies in Texas.
“Stanley’s prior prison time was apparently not enough of a teaching moment for him because he returned to his bank robbing ways while he was still on parole for the last bank robbery he committed,” said Will Clarke, Senior Supervisory Special Agent of FBI Atlanta’s Savannah office. “Thanks to the assistance of our partners with the Chatham County Police Department, he’ll have a long stint in federal prison to think about what he’ll do the next time he is released.”