Published: July 08, 2009 06:56 am      

Hatchett sentenced

OKLAHOMA CITY- A Fort Supply man who robbed a Woodward bank at knifepoint in February has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison.

On Monday, Kenneth Leon Hatchett, 51, was sentenced by United States District Judge Stephen P. Friot to serve 63 months in federal prison for robbing the downtown Woodward branch of the Central National Bank of Alva on Feb. 25, 2009.

Hatchett was charged with bank robbery after he entered the Central National Bank of Alva located at 722 Main St. around noon on Feb. 25 and demanded money, while armed with an approximately 10-inch kitchen knife and wearing a ski mask, gloves and pink coveralls, according to reports from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

After collecting an undisclosed amount of money, Hatchett exited the bank on foot and was spotted running east from the bank, the FBI reported.

Hatchett was on the run for “approximately five minutes” before being apprehended by Woodward Police officers, the FBI said.

He was then taken into custody without incident and was held at the Woodward County Jail overnight before being placed into the custody of the United States Marshal Service.

According to a Department of Justice press release, Hatchett pled guilty to the bank robbery in April of this year.

Hatchett’s 63-month prison sentence was announced Tuesday by John C. Richter, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.

In addition to the prison sentence, Richter announced that Friot also ordered Hatchett to serve four years of supervised probation upon his release from prison.

Hatchett will remain at Grady County Jail, which is where he was being held since Feb. 26 while awaiting his sentence, until the U. S. Bureau of Prisons determines which federal prison to place him in, according to Bob Troester, spokesman for the US Attorney’s office for the Western District of Oklahoma. Hatchett’s placement determination will be based on available bed space in addition to consideration for his sentence term, Troester said, noting that his placement can eventually be tracked using the inmate locator feature on the Federal Bureau of Prisons website at http://www.bop.gov/.