GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WHTC) – A 43-year-old Grand Rapids man pleaded guilty to federal bank robbery charges stemming from heists in the Calder City and in the Tulip City. John Michael Barrara admitted taking about a thousand dollars from a Chase branch inside the Alpine Avenue Meijer on May 6th, and four days earlier, held up the Ninth Street Fifth Third branch in Holland of over 19 hundred dollars. As a repeat convicted bank robber, Barrara could get up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced on June 1st.
Grand Rapids Man Admits Holding Up Holland Bank
By Gary Stevens
Feb 17, 2015 | 11:17 PM
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