Texas Bank Robbery Sentence: Korean American Gets Nearly 6 Years

A 31-year-old Korean American man has been sentenced to 71 months in federal prison for a series of bank robberies in Texas.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas, Kyung Heo pleaded guilty to bank robbery and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant, III on September 30, 2025.

Court filings show that on November 18, 2022, Heo entered a Comerica Bank on State Highway 121 in Lewisville. After being told a cashier’s check could only be processed for clients, he pulled out a handgun, threatened the manager and employees, and stole $13,000.

On April 6, 2023, Heo robbed an American National Bank branch in Flower Mound, where he jumped over the counter with a handgun and forced tellers to empty their cash drawers. Investigators later recovered a plastic bag with $18,943 in a drainage ditch. The bank reported additional losses, bringing the total amount stolen from that robbery to $29,151, according to the DOJ.

Surveillance evidence also linked Heo to a June 6, 2023 robbery at Citizen’s National Bank in Weatherford. For that crime, he was convicted in the Northern District of Texas and sentenced to 57 months. The DOJ confirmed that his Eastern District of Texas sentence will run concurrently with the earlier conviction.

The case was investigated by the FBI, the Lewisville Police Department, and the Flower Mound Police Department. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew T. Johnson.