Jail escapee convicted of bank heists gets 42 years

A man accused of breaking out of the Cook County Jail wearing a stolen guard's uniform has been sentenced to 42 years in prison for robbing five banks in Chicago's Loop.

Randy Rencher pulled off one of the heists the day of his breakout wearing the lifted uniform. He was sentenced Wednesday.

Rencher was convicted of five counts of bank robbery, two counts of using a firearm during a bank robbery and one count of possessing cocaine. The jury acquitted him of a lone firearms count.

He still faces charges stemming from an incident in which he took a busload of federal prisoners hostage. Rencher was not subdued in that case until a marshal used a Taser stun gun on him.