Bank Robber Gets 3 Years in Prison; Judge Calls Sentence "A Gift"

A 24-year-old mother and convicted bank robber was handed what a U.S. District judge called “a gift” in a three year prison sentence for robbing two banks last year.

Kirbey Ingold, a mother of a 6-year-old girl, offered an apology to the bank tellers she threatened to shoot in October and asked U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin “for a chance to redeem myself,” according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

“I just need one chance, your honor, to make it right and be there for my baby,” Ingold said.

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Durkin provided the “gift” in the form of a three-year sentence, reminding Ingold she “scared two tellers to death” and that she could have been killed if security had acted after she lied about having a gun in her pocket during the commission of two robberies, one at the PNC Bank in Skokie on October 7 and the other a week later at the BMO Harris Bank in Wilmette.

Ingold made off with $1,426 in the Skokie heist and $1,780 in Wilmette, the Sun-Times reports. Even James McGurk, Ingold’s attorney, called that a “profound error.”

“There are playoff tickets in this city being sold for more than that,” he said.

McGurk had argued for a sentence that included no jail time.

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