TOPEKA, KANSAS
A man plead guilty to bank robbery and admitted threatening employees with a gun and dragging a woman by the hair, officials said.
Clifton B. Cloyd, 54, Kansas City, Mo., plead guilty this week to one count of bank robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm during the robbery. On Oct. 29.
Cloyd and another man robbed the Bank of America at 9500 Mission in Overland Park, Kan.
According to the affidavit, five bank employees and a customer were held at gunpoint. Cloyd who was armed with a handgun grabbed one of the bank employees and pulled her by the hair and scarf to the teller station.
He struck her in the face three times with the handgun. The blow was so hard her glasses flew off, and she was knocked to the floor.
Sentencing is set for Sept. 14. He faces a penalty of not less than 10 years and not more than 25 years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000 on the bank robbery charge, and a penalty of not less than seven years and a fine up to $250,000 on the firearm charge.
Co-defendant Steve A. Watts, 55, Mo., is awaiting trial.
Cloyd hit a male employee with such force that his head started bleeding. Watts pointed a handgun at an employee and demanded she open the safe, according to the criminal affidavit.