NEWS RELEASE

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY

WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI

MATT J. WHITWORTH

Contact Don Ledford, Public Affairs ● (816) 426-4220 ● 400 East Ninth Street, Room 5510 ● Kansas City, MO 64106

www.usdoj.gov/usao/mow/index.html

JUNE 3, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

JEFFERSON CITY WOMAN SENTENCED

FOR CREDIT UNION ROBBERY

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Jefferson City, Mo., woman has been sentenced in federal court for robbing the River Region Credit Union last year.

Amanda Danielle Messer, 24, of Jefferson City, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Scott O. Wright on Tuesday, June 2, 2009, to three years and one month in federal prison without parole.

On Sept. 18, 2008, Messer pleaded guilty to stealing $13,100 from River Region Credit Union in Jefferson City during a robbery that occurred on Aug. 6, 2008. Messer was arrested by a Jefferson City police officer following a vehicle pursuit shortly after fleeing the scene.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Lawrence E. Miller. It was investigated by the Jefferson City, Mo., Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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