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Woman Gets 5 Years in Federal Prison for Sidney Bank Robbery

jailSIDNEY, Neb. (AP) — A woman has been given five years in federal prison for robbing a bank in Sidney.

Janetta Lenstrom, of Potter, was sentenced last week in U.S. District Court in Lincoln. She’d robbed Sidney Federal Savings & Loan of nearly $21,000 on Jan. 24, 2014.

An FBI affidavit filed to support a bank robbery charge says a bank employee told investigators that she thought she recognized Lenstrom as the robber, who was wearing a stocking cap and sunglasses. The affidavit says Lenstrom’s husband was among the first police officers on the scene but was pulled from the investigation.

He later called her and asked her to meet him at a Sidney parking lot. The Sidney police chief arrested her when she arrived.

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