"Mickey Mouse Bandit" Gets 1,948-Year Sentence
Those robbery counts can really add up
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Philanthropist and investor Alberto Vilar was sentenced today to nine years in prison.
The robbery counts added up for a man dubbed the "Mickey Mouse Bandit."
Anthony Richard Cuellar, who earned the nickname because he wore a hat with a Mickey Mouse logo, was convicted last year on 43 counts of robbery. On Monday, he received a sentence of 1,948 years to life.
"I don't recall of a sentence where a defendant has received that many years," Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman with the District Attorney's Office, told the Star-News. "It's up there."
The Star-News reported that Cuellar, 35, was linked to one nail salon robbery and eight back heists in 2007.
Dudley Wayne Kyzer received the longest prison sentence handed down by a U.S court -- 10,000 years. That was for the 1981 slaying of his wife in Alabama.
In February 1973, a man found guilty of murdering 25 migrant farm workers was sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms in California.
