Man Sentenced in Collar-Bomb Bank Robbery

Posted by Adam Kuban, December 8, 2008 at 10:11 AM

When I first started Slice, way back in 2003, a bizarre crime case surfaced in the news about a pizza delivery driver, Brian Wells, who wore a collar bomb into an Erie, Pennsylvania, bank in order to rob it.

Much mystery surrounded the case—was Wells a co-conspirator or was he simply some guy off the street, forced to wear the bomb and carry out the sick instructions of some wackos.

Well, it's been determined that Wells probably did conspire with the robbers, one of whom, Kenneth Barnes, was just sentenced to 45 years in prison.

In sentencing Barnes, U.S. District Judge Sean J. McLaughlin said, "To me, the callousness and complete lack of regard for human life is, in a word, chilling. This case represents the unhappy combination of incredibly bizarre and sadly tragic."

Yeah, it's only marginally pizza-related in that Wells was a delivery driver, but I used to blog about these off-topic topics in the past, and I figured it was worth noting the outcome here.

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