WASHINGTON, July 1 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
EL DORADO - A southwest Arkansas man was sentenced on June 29, 2026, to 114 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for robbing a Union County, Arkansas, bank at gunpoint. The Honorable Judge Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court at El Dorado.
According to court records, on the afternoon of April 2, 2024, Melvin Wiltshire, age 58, of Mount Ida, entered the Strong, Arkansas Simmons Bank, wearing a camouflage face mask and a hooded gray sweatshirt. Wiltshire pointed a black revolver at three bank employees and instruct...