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80-year-old pleads guilty to bank heist

An 80-year-old Chicago man has been sentenced in federal court to five years in prison for taking part in a 1991 bank robbery in Michigan.

Thursday's sentence follows Carmine Jannece's guilty plea in April to a charge of conspiring to commit bank robbery.

Jannece was originally charged in 1996 but he went on the lam for nearly a decade. He resurfaced last February when he turned himself in to authorities.

Jannece admitted he took part in the robbery with a reputed mob burglar and two others in Saugatuck, Michigan. While he aced as a lookout, the robbers forced their way into the vault wearing Halloween masks of former Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.