The so-called “Tootsie Bandit”\u2014 who told a judge “my wife won\u2019t have anything to do with me” since he put on a dress to rob a bank \u2014 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\u2019Neill 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\u2019s addiction to a prescription painkiller. Police recovered $8,781 in cash at Tyndall\u2019s Hillcrest residence, but it appeared the remaining $63,000 had been spent before he was caught. Tyndall apologized for his actions, telling O\u2019Neill he had worked as a maintenance engineer. “I\u2019ve never done anything like this before,” Tyndall said. “I\u2019ll never do anything like this again. My view on drugs? I hate them. They ruined my life. My wife won\u2019t have anything to do with me.” Tyndall\u2019s 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\u2019Neill 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.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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