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Friday, December 30, 2005

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Man turned in by his sons gets 40 years in bank robberies

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A family man once regarded as a pillar of the community was sentenced to 40 years in prison yesterday for a string of bank robberies after being turned in by his sons, who recognized him in a surveillance photo.

The judge imposed the minimum sentence on 64-year-old William Alfred ''Al" Ginglen. Ginglen, who pleaded guilty in July to committing seven bank robberies in 2003 and 2004, was also ordered to pay $56,382 in restitution.

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Ginglen, a married father of four from Lewistown, was once a civic leader, serving as a village trustee, zoning board chairman, auxiliary police officer, and firefighter. But he began a life of crime after losing two jobs.

Authorities said he needed the money to support a girlfriend, a crack habit, and visits to prostitutes, a secret life he scrupulously documented in a diary discovered by authorities.

Ginglen's double life began to unravel in 2004, when one of his sons, Peoria police officer Jared Ginglen, recognized his father on bank surveillance videotapes posted on a law enforcement website. The brothers turned their father in.

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