Crime & Safety
Stoughton Man Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison for 2011 Peabody Bank Robbery
Mark Lepage, 50, was sentenced on Friday after he pleaded guilty to armed bank robbery and weapons charges in January.
A Stoughton man who robbed a Peabody bank in 2011 has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.
The Boston Globe reported that Mark Lepage, 50, was sentenced on Friday after he pleaded guilty to armed bank robbery and weapons charges in January.
Lepage walked into the Eastern Bank on Lynn Street in 2011 wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses. He put a gun to a customer’s head and demanded the customer hand over all of his month. He then turned the gun at the tellers and demanded money.
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“Give me all the money, no dye packs or alarms or I will shoot,” Lepage told tellers.
The Stoughton man fled with more than $20,000.
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Police arrested Lepage after seeing surveillance photos from the bank.
Photo caption: Surveillance video from the 2011 robbery.
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