Convicted Florida Bank Robber Pleads to Stay Behind Bars • Hollywood Unlocked

A serial bank robber pleaded with a judge to keep him behind bars two weeks after his release from prison for the same time. Last Thursday, he was sentenced to 20 years for bank robbery and stated that life was better for him behind bars.

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“Prison keeps me from my self-destruction and keeps the outside community safer,” Terry Meach,42, wrote in a letter to US District Judge Rodney Smith in a September letter. According to the New York Post, his recent crime spree started on February 23 at a Truist Bank in Hollywood, where Meach demanded money and claimed he was armed. During that heist, he stole about $2,419. Four days later, Meach committed the same crime again and threatened to use a bomb at a Fifth Third Bank in Fort Lauderdale before moving to a nearby Truist Bank and stealing $2,379. Despite no evidence of weapons, he continued to intimidate tellers.

Meach previously served almost four years for a 2012 robbery spree, including thefts at a TD Bank in Fort Lauderdale and Suntrust Bank in Miami. After his release in 2016, he returned to committing multiple heists, including one at a Chase Bank in Doral. In the letter he wrote to Judge Smith, he acknowledged that he would re-offend again if he’s released.

”I know I’m going to mess up again. I always have the same results, 100% truth.”

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Meach added that he found more stability in prison life and knows his own patterns better than anyone else: “I made a family and good jobs, I just know myself better than anyone else does.”

He was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after pleading multiple counts of bank robbery.