Havertown Bank Robber Gets 6-And-A-Half Years In Prison

HAVERTOWN, PA — A Philadelphia man was hit with a six-and-a-half year prison sentence for robbing banks in the Philadelphia area, including one in Havertown.

First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams said Michael Edmondson, 53, of Philadelphia, was sentenced to 78 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay more than $6,700 in restitution for robbing four banks in Delaware, Montgomery, and Bucks counties, and Philadelphia.

Edmondson pleased guilty in September 2019 to a four-count Indictment charging him with four counts of bank robbery.

The charges stem from a bank robbery spree that began on Feb. 19 at the Wells Fargo Bank in Trevose, Bucks County; the Citizens Bank in Havertown’s Giant Foods on Feb. 24; the Wells Fargo Bank in King of Prussia on Feb. 27; and the Santander Bank on Market Street in Philadelphia on March 6.

In total, Edmondson got $7,958 from the four banks, committing the offenses shortly after absconding from a halfway house where he was living while on state parole.

In all four cases, Edmondson threatened to shoot himself and other people if the bank employees did not hand him cash.