Terry Twist's latest and most serious run-in with the law ended indisappointment Thursday, as the 26-year-old left federal courtshaking his head and carrying a 28-month prison term for hooking upwith a batch of teens in a botched bank heist.
The affable Aurora man, whose nine other convictions ofteninvolved excessive boozing, has already been in jail for about 13months and hoped his sentence Thursday would come close to equalingtime served.
But U.S. District Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer refused to give Twisttwo significant sentencing breaks Thursday.
"I'm on your side," Pallmeyer assured Twist after imposing thesentence. "There's nobody in here who doesn't want to see you comeout of this in a positive way."
Twist_whose other convictions include possessing drugs at aGrateful Dead concert, driving under the influence and under-agedrinking_pleaded guilty in January to conspiracy to commit banklarceny. While working as a bank supervisor in 1999, Twist helpedstage a nearly $90,000 heist at the TCF branch where he worked insidea Naperville grocery store. Several area teens also were recruitedinto the scheme.
Twist was once accused as the mastermind, but two othersupervisors are now charged as ringleaders. Twist helped authoritiesbuild charges against the two women. Both have pleaded not guilty.
"He's obviously disappointed," Twist's lawyer, Jim Tunick, saidafter Twist was taken back to the Metropolitan Correctional Center."He learned his lesson . . . and he doesn't want to spend any moretime in prison."
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