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HUNTINGTON, W.Va.May 5 2012 — A Tennessee man has been sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison for robbing two financial institutions in West Virginia last year.

Fifty-two-year-old Charles Asher was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Huntington. He previously admitted robbing the First Priority Federal Credit Union in Barboursville on Aug. 23 and a BB&T branch in Hurricane on Oct. 3.

Federal prosecutors say Asher wore a security guard uniform and threatened tellers with a replica pistol during both robberies. He fled the banks with a total of $30,000 in cash.

According to court records, Asher was released from a federal prison in Kentucky on Aug. 19, 2011, and taken to a bus station in Huntington. He was supposed to go to a halfway house in Nashville, Tenn., but he never arrived.