CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa— Jeffrey Haydock, 58, who has been described as a “serial bank robber,” has been sentenced to 19 years in federal prison for robbing two Cedar Rapids credit unions in 2009 and 2010.
In June, Haydock pleaded guilty to robbing First Federal CU and Linn Area CU, netting nearly $40,000 in both robberies, during which he showed a semi-automatic handgun and ordered everyone to the floor. Haydock who had already been convicted of separate robberies in Wisconsin, committed his first bank robbery when he was 29 and has already served 22 years for those crimes. In 2010 he told a judge that he didn't need the money and he had a good job, a house and a fiancée, and was unable to explain why he robbed the institutions.