Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Electronic Billboards Help Capture Robber

  • {Greeneville, Tennessee}...Thirty-nine year old Chad Schaffner of Indianapolis, Indiana was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Greeneville, Tennessee to 26 life in prison sentences for holdups in 2009, including 11 banks, one credit union and one retail store. Fourteen of the sentences are to run consecutively. The robberies occurred in Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, South Carolina, Indiana and Illinois. Schaffner was identified as a suspect within 24 hours of bank surveillance photos popping up on wall-size electronic highway signs in Alabama, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.