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Southern Iowa man pleads guilty to robbing Missouri bank

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September 2nd, 2024 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – A 67-year-old man from the small southern Iowa town of Promise City has pleaded guilty to robbing a bank about 45 miles away in Princeton, Missouri. Court records indicate Phillip Michael Blink admits he put on a cowboy hat, a trench coat and a red bandana to cover his face when he robbed in May of last year. He pointed a semi-automatic handgun at a teller, left with over 41-hundred dollars in cash and drove north in a pick-up truck. The bank manager took pictures of Blink and his truck and Blink was pulled over by a Knoxville police officer later that day — with his cowboy get up, the gun and the money in the vehicle. He faces a mandatory 30 years in prison on the armed robbery and gun charges.