Retired Pomona police sergeant sentenced to 3 years for bank robberies
RIVERSIDE -- Retired Pomona police Sgt. Frank Holder was sentenced to three years in federal prison this morning for robbing banks in 2008 in Rancho Cucamonga and Glendora.
Holder, 62, must surrender by May 10 to begin serving his sentence, said U.S. District Judge Virgina A. Phillips.
Phillips said her preliminary ruling was to sentence Holder to nearly five years, but she reduced the sentence after hearing statements in court from Holder, his wife, his son and attorneys in the case.
Holder, who worked for the Pomona Police Department for 30 years before retiring in 2004, apologized to his friends and family in U.S. District Court this morning.
"I knew what I was doing when I did it," Holder said. "I felt bad about it."
Holder was arrested Oct. 29, 2008 after he robbed a Bank of America branch in Rancho Cucamonga. He later confessed to committing five bank robberies, including one in Glendora and two in Escondido.
Holder pleaded guilty in August to two counts of bank robbery.
He told authorities after his arrest that he had a large amount of credit card debt and was unable to make minimum payments despite a six-figure pension.
He told authorities he feared his wife would leave him because of his financial irresponsibility, so he turned to bank robbery.
Holder's attorney asked Phillips to sentence the retired police sergeant to one year and one day in prison, and Holder's family and friends pleaded for leniency in letters to the judge.
"He's a loving father, grandfather, friend," Holder's wife, Terrlyn Holder, told the judge this morning. "He is needed by his family."
A psychologist who interviewed Holder after his arrest said in a letter to the judge that Holder may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder from his military service in the Vietnam War, where Holder claims he was ordered to kill civilians.
Why not just take him into custody ? Wait...he's a former cop so that's why,just like with Mike Carona who has not yet to begin his 5 1/2 year sentence,and also Raymond Yi the former OC Deputy has not served his 6 month sentence since being sentenced 2 years ago for threatening to kill 2 men and pointing a gun at them in a Chino Hills golf course for losing a game to them.
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