Seventeen-year prison term ordered for violent Overland Park bank robbery

A Kansas City man was sentenced Monday to 17 years in prison for a 2014 Overland Park bank robbery where several employees and customers were pistol-whipped.

Clifton B. Cloyd, 54, was one of two men who held up the Bank of America branch at 9500 Mission Road on Oct. 29, 2014.

He was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., where he previously pleaded guilty to bank robbery and using a firearm during a crime of violence.

During the robbery, Cloyd dragged one woman by her hair and hit her in the face with a handgun. He hit another man, knocking off his glasses, and split another man’s head open when Cloyd struck him with the pistol.

Co-defendant Steve A. Watts, 55, has also pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing.

This story was originally published May 23, 2016 at 4:14 PM with the headline "Seventeen-year prison term ordered for violent Overland Park bank robbery."