The so-called “Tootsie Bandit”— who told a judge “my wife won’t have anything to do with me” since he put on a dress to rob a bank — has been sentenced to seven years, eight months in state prison. Robert Dean Tyndall II, 56, of Hillcrest got the maximum term from San Diego Superior Court Judge Robert O’Neill on April 6 for a string of bank jobs or attempted heists, including one in Point Loma. He was ordered to pay roughly $63,000 in restitution. “He dressed up as a woman in one [bank heist] and wore earrings in another,” said Deputy District Attorney Dennis Panish. Tyndall wore a blonde wig, a black blazer with a blue blouse, blue jeans and black boots when he held up the Inland Federal Credit Union in El Cajon on July 16. He was not arrested until Feb. 4 by San Diego police. In the local case, Tyndall approached the bank manager of the Comerica Bank on Rosecrans Street in the parking lot before the bank opened on Jan. 24. He claimed to have a gun, but the manager refused to open the bank and Tyndall left empty-handed in a tan pickup truck. Panish said the motive for the robberies was Tyndall’s addiction to a prescription painkiller. Police recovered $8,781 in cash at Tyndall’s Hillcrest residence, but it appeared the remaining $63,000 had been spent before he was caught. Tyndall apologized for his actions, telling O’Neill he had worked as a maintenance engineer. “I’ve never done anything like this before,” Tyndall said. “I’ll never do anything like this again. My view on drugs? I hate them. They ruined my life. My wife won’t have anything to do with me.” Tyndall’s attorney, Doug Miller, said Tyndall was not armed with a real gun. “No one was harmed or injured in this series of bank robberies,” said Miller, who asked for a prison term of four years, eight months. O’Neill recommended Tyndall serve his term at a fire camp where inmates can work outside. Tyndall pleaded guilty to two robberies and attempted robbery on March 8.