Handsome Guy Bandit gets 35 years

by Associated Press

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He robbed 11 banks in DFW.

Cherie Ward

Steven Ray Milam, also known as the Hollywood Bandit and the Handsome Guy Bandit, was detained Tuesday, January 3, 2012 by Jackson County (Miss.) Sheriff's Deputies in Pascagoula, Miss., after he tried to outrun investigators.

RICHARDSON — A judge has sentenced to 35 years in federal prison a man who admitted to being the "Handsome Guy Bandit" responsible for 11 North Texas bank holdups.

Steven Ray Milam pleaded guilty in Dallas last May to 11 federal counts of bank robbery. U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay sentenced the 45-year-old Richardson man on Monday.

The "Handsome Guy Bandit" got his name from tellers at the banks he robbed, who described the mask he wore. Milam was arrested January 3 in Mississippi after a chase on Interstate 10 in which a sheriff shot out a tire on the vehicle Milam was driving.

Prosecutors had said Milam could have received from 32 years to life in prison.