Three Fort Dodge men have pleaded guilty to robbing an Iowa Falls Bank. Twenty-one-year-old Clifford Brown, 21-year-old Andrew Avera and 23-year-old Johnny Slaughter pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids to charges of armed robber and brandishing a gun during that robbery. Brown and Slaughter admitted they went into the Ackley State Bank in Iowa Falls on October 6th, threatened the bank employees with a gun and left with over 71-thousand dollars. Avera was the driver of the getaway car. All the money was recovered. All three men face up to 25 years in prison on the robbery charge and seven years to life on the gun charge.
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