KANSAS CITY — A Carthage, Mo., man was sentenced Wednesday to 17-and-a-half years in federal prison for two attempted bank robberies, including one at Kincaid last year. Daniel Lee Waddell, 29, exchanged gun shots with law enforcement officers in Anderson and Linn counties as he and an accomplice fled Kincaid. Waddell pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted bank robbery, at Kincaid and at Langan, Mo., U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. Waddell admitted that on March 5, 2013, he and Stephen Hudson tried to rob the Citizens National Bank in Kincaid, Grissom said. Because of the bank’s security system, Waddell couldn’t get into the bank. When a witness and law enforcement officers pursued them, Waddell fired a gun at them before he and Hudson were taken into custody. He and Hudson also tried to rob the Cornerstone Bank in Langan. When Waddell brandished a Chinese SKS assault rife rifle, bank employees dropped to the floor behind bullet proof glass and activated an alarm, Grissom said. The two fled the bank. Waddell told investigators he got the guns used in the bank robberies while helping in the tornado cleanup in Joplin. Hudson will be sentenced later.
Thursday, Feb. 20, 4 p.m.
