Man convicted of robbing 3 North Carolina banks

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A 52-year-old man accused of robbing seven banks in the Carolinas in 2009 has been found guilty on the North Carolina charges.

U.S. Attorney Thomas Walker announced Thursday that a Wilmington jury found Jonathan Lee Thompson of Concord guilty of three counts of bank robbery. He faces up to 20 years in prison on each.

Sentencing is set for November.

He was convicted of robbing three banks in Wilmington in the fall of 2009. He fled the three with a total of $8,117.

Thompson was on probation when arrested at a hotel in Myrtle Beach, S.C., that December. In 2003, he was convicted of robbing nine banks in North Carolina and sentenced to 84 months.

He is also accused of robbing banks in Spartanburg, Greenville, and Florence, S.C.