WHEELING, W.Va. (WV News) — A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to 10 months in federal prison for a 2018 bank robbery in Wheeling, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard.

Frank L. Morrison, 59, of Braddock Hills, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey.

Morrison walked into the United Bank in Elm Grove in September 2018, took $4,200 and fled on foot. He discarded his mask and other items in a nearby dumpster. Investigators recovered the materials and obtained DNA evidence from the mask, which matched Morrison.

Morrison has prior convictions for armed bank robbery, robbery and access device fraud.

Assistant U.S. attorneys Clayton Reid and Carly Nogay prosecuted the case. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the West Virginia State Police

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