OHIO Man gets sentence for robbery

He will be sentenced for a second robbery Oct. 13.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A man who twice tried to rob banks using a fake-hostage scheme was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison for one of the crimes.
David Khouri, 25, a former assistant bank manager from Parma, was awaiting sentencing for the March 2003 robbery of a Fifth Third Bank in suburban Cleveland when he was arrested four months later for attempting a similar heist at a National City Bank in Fairborn.
Khouri walked in and demanded $200,000, saying bandits would storm the bank if he didn't come out with the money.
The manager told Khouri to wait in his office while he fetched the money. Instead, the manager evacuated the customers and employees and called police.
First robbery
In the first robbery, Khouri escaped with $127,000 after duping Jay Phares, a college friend, into believing Khouri would be killed by hit men if Phares didn't help him come up with $100,000.
"If you conclude that Mr. Khouri is inept, Mr. Phares is on the far end of the scale as far as total and complete gullibility," federal prosecutor Dwight Keller said after Khouri's sentencing Friday in Dayton.
Khouri walked into the Parma Heights bank with a fake bomb strapped to his leg, demanded money and told a teller that a man outside, Phares, would detonate the bomb if he didn't come out with the money.
An hour later, Khouri called police to tell them he had just been freed. Within 24 hours, both men were under arrest.
Phares was sentenced in July 2003 to four years and three months in prison.
Khouri could get five more years when he is sentenced for the Parma Heights robbery on Oct. 13.