The Loan Ranger Bandit [1] is an American bank robber who committed a series of bank robberies throughout the states of Texas, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Arkansas, [2] beginning in 2009. The Loan Ranger Bandit has been positively identified as 37-year-old Richard Swicegood of Waxahachie, Texas, following a traffic stop by Arkansas State Police in early July 2014. The traffic stop followed a robbery of the Summit Bank in Benton, Arkansas on July 1, 2014, believed to have been committed by Swicegood. [3] [4]
The robber is responsible for at least ten separate bank robberies, according to the FBI. [5] In addition, the FBI's major case hotline cites a number of initial options to a caller, one of which is for those seeking to provide information to the FBI on the Loan Ranger Bandit. On March 11, 2015, a federal judge sentenced 38-year-old Richard Wayne Swicegood of Waxahachie, Texas, to 40 years in federal prison for committing 13 armed bank robberies in Texas and Arkansas.[ citation needed ]
