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Ripon bank robber gets 25 to life
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A career criminal and bank robber who traumatized Ripon tellers in October of 2009 was sentenced Friday in Merced Superior Court to a term of 25 years to life in prison on a Three Strike conviction following a Livingston robbery.Daniel Eugene Frazier, now 61, had received a rather light sentence in San Joaquin County for the Ripon robberies at Bank of Stockton twice and Westside Bank across the street from each other with all four robberies occurring within the same two months. He was released from federal prison in 2013.It took three years for Merced County District Attorney Gerard Egan to see his Livingston bank robbery prosecution run through his court system for a similar robbery at West America Bank only a block away from the Livingston Police Department. Egan said his suspect chose to represent himself in court and presented many delay motions and cited three judges as being biased against him — replacing judge after judge.Egan said the suspect would average more than $7,500 from each of the banks.Egan said the suspect’s method of operation was identical in each incident where he would enter a bank yelling for tellers to give him their 50 and 100 dollar bills.