The following is a press release issued by the Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office:
Surveillance footage of convicted bank robber Dean Stevens at Ukiah’s Chase Bank [Picture provided by Ukiah Police Department] Dean Stevens [Picture from the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Booking Logs]
As previously reported on this page, defendant Dean Michael Stevens, age 54, generally of Ukiah, plead no contest back on August 27th to the January 21st robbery of the Ukiah branch of Chase Bank.
This morning (Thursday, Sept. 9) he was formally sentenced to the stipulated 120 months in state prison.
Bank robbery is characterized as a violent felony under California law so any work or good time credits the defendant may attempt to earn towards his early release from state prison shall be limited to no more than 15% of the 10 year sentence that now has been imposed.
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