A Waukesha man was sentenced to eight years in prison for his role in robbing a bank in East Troy in June.
Michael K. Brown, 37, pleaded guilty Nov. 13 to robbery of a financial institution as a party to a crime. He was sentenced Jan. 10 to eight years in state prison and 12 years extended supervision and ordered to pay $2,842 in restitution along with his girlfriend Azure S. Murray, 29, of Waterford.
Murray also is charged with robbery of a financial institution as a party to a crime. Her case is scheduled for a final pretrial conference May 2 with a two-day jury trial set for May 13 and 14 if no agreement is reached.
According to the criminal complaint, Murray is suspected of driving Brown to Associated Bank in the Village of East Troy at about 2:20 p.m. June 19. Brown is believed to have gone inside the bank with his hand over his face, threw a bag on the counter and demanded that the teller “fill it up,” according to the complaint.
The teller said she filled the bag with money, then the man, suspected to be Brown, told her and another teller to go into the bathroom and wait for five minutes before coming out, according to the complaint.
Brown allegedly left the bank and got into his car, which Murray drove away from the scene.
When Brown was apprehended, he told police Murray is a heroin user and had accumulated debt with her drug dealers, according to the complaint. He said they were afraid the dealers would shoot her and used the money stolen from the bank to pay the drug dealers, according to the complaint.
