Mike Royko's son gets 30 months for attempted bank robbery

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Royko's son gets 30 months for attempted bank robbery

The son of the late Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for attempted bank robbery.

Robert Royko could have been sent to prison for more than five years. The minimum under federal guidelines was more than three years, but U.S. District Judge Wayne R. Andersen said today there was reason to be lenient.

Andersen said pharmaceutical drugs Royko had been taking in large quantities to cope with emotional problems contributed to the April 2005 incident, in which Royko entered a bank with a fake bomb and demanded money. A police officer knocked the device out of his hand and arrested him.

Mike Royko, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who worked for three Chicago newspapers, died in 1997.

glad my dad was not famous. I have it easy....

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