Posted Jan. 07, 2013, at 12:16 p.m.
PORTLAND, Maine — A federal judge Friday sentenced a Brunswick man to one day in prison for robbing an Arundel bank last year followed by a mandatory seven years for using a gun.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Torresen imposed the unusual sentence on Travis Leeman, 30, who pleaded guilty last year to the armed bank robbery.
Leeman, who was addicted to oxycodone, robbed the bank to pay off his drug dealer after the man threatened to kill Leeman’s wife, Assistant U.S. Attorney Darcie McElwee said Monday.
Acting on a joint recommendation from the prosecutor and defense attorney, the judge went outside the federal sentencing guidelines, which recommended Leeman spend between 30 and 37 months behind bars for the robbery, in sending Leeman to prison for just one day. She did impose the minimum seven-year sentence mandated by Congress on people convicted of using a gun during a bank robbery. As a result, Leeman was sentenced to seven years and a day in federal prison.
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