MASKED ARMED ROBBER SENTENCED TO 25 YEARS

BOWLING GREEN, KY—William Roy Hendrick, age 58, of Madison, Tennessee, was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in United States District Court, Bowling Green, Kentucky, for robbing the South Central Bank in Bowling Green on April 6, 2007, and attempting to rob the same bank on April 25, 2007, U.S. Attorney David L. Huber of the Western District of Kentucky announced today. Thomas B. Russell, Judge, United States District Court, also sentenced Hendrick to 3 years supervised release following incarceration. There is no parole in the federal judicial system. In addition, restitution in the amount of $12,182 was imposed.

Hendrick, who has seven prior felony convictions, had pled guilty to robbing the South Central Bank located at 1709 US 31 Bypass in Bowling Green, on April 6, 2007, with his co-defendant, Richard Parrott. Hendrick and Parrott entered the bank wearing masks of former Presidents Nixon and Reagan. Hendrick was also armed with a .410 gauge sawed-off shotgun during the robbery. Upon entering the bank, Parrott jumped the teller counter and ordered the tellers to fill his bag with cash. After obtaining over $12,000 in cash, the two men left the bank and fled in a stolen Nissan pickup truck with Tennessee plates.

Hendrick also pled guilty to attempting to rob the same bank again, with Parrott, on April 25, 2007. On that day Hendrick and Parrott were both wearing masks, and Hendrick was armed with the same .410 gauge sawed-off shotgun. Upon entering the bank, they then went into the foyer, and proceeded to go through the doors to the bank lobby. However, after the first robbery, the bank had installed a security system which allowed the tellers to automatically lock the doors to the lobby. When the tellers saw the two masked men enter the foyer, they locked the lobby doors. Believing that they were locked in the foyer, Hendrick shot the outside doors with the shotgun, and Hendrick and Parrott fled the bank in a stolen Toyota Corolla station wagon.

Parrott has also pled guilty and will be sentenced on March 5, 2008. Hendrick and Parrott had previously used a handgun to rob a bank in Florida in 1987, and after that robbery Parrott engaged in a shootout with police that resulted in a uniformed officer being shot. As a result of that incident, Hendrick was convicted of robbery, aggravated assault, grand theft, carrying a concealed firearm, aggravated robbery, and felonious possession of a firearm and was sentenced to 9 years imprisonment; and Parrott was convicted of first degree attempted murder, felonious possession of a firearm, robbery, and aggravated assault and was sentenced to 27 years imprisonment. Hendrick also has prior felony convictions for assault and battery (1966), third degree burglary (1977), theft over $1,000 (1998), criminal impersonation (1999), theft over $500 (2001), and assault (2002). Parrott has five other prior felony convictions for Grand larceny (1968 and 1975), bank robbery (1971), burglary (1976) and escape (1977).

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney David Weiser, and it was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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