CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA — A 34 year old Federal inmate was sentenced on March 12, 2008, in United States District Court in Clarksburg by Chief Judge Irene M. Keeley.

United States Attorney Sharon L. Potter announced that DONALD BERNARD TALLEY was sentenced to 165 months imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, pursuant to an earlier entered plea of guilty. TALLEY is currently serving a 151-month sentence for a conviction on two counts of bank robbery in the Northern District of California; and also must serve a 120-month sentence for a conviction on three counts mailing threatening communications in the Western District of Missouri, before he begins to serve this sentence of 165 months. TALLEY entered a plea of guilty on October 18, 2007, to one count of an Indictment charging him with assaulting a Bureau of Prisons employee with a dangerous weapon on February 7, 2007, at USP Hazelton in Preston County, West Virginia.