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Kansas Man Gets Probation For Staged Bank Robbery And Kidnapping

(AP) – A 21-year-old Overland Park man has been sentenced in federal court to three years of probation for his role in a staged bank robbery and kidnapping.

The Kansas City Star reports David Batson also was ordered Monday to continue participating in mental health counseling.

Batson previously pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting embezzlement by a bank employee in the November 2010 heist. Three others also have pleaded guilty and were sentenced to probation.

Michael Grace admitted masterminding the plan in which he claimed to have been abducted and forced to take money from an ATM at a U.S. Bank branch where he worked. He claimed masked men abducted him and took him to the bank, where they beat him up and stole more than $62,000 from the cash machine.

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