TOPEKA – A 29-year-old Topeka man has been sentenced to 17.5-years in federal prison for bank robbery.

Tramaine Mondale Beadles was convicted in a jury trial in 2011 on one count of bank robbery. During trial, prosecutors presented evidence that on Oct. 19, 2010, Beadles and another man robbed the Kaw Valley Bank at 1944 N. Topeka.

Beadles was an inmate at the Grossman Center in Leavenworth at the time of the Kaw Valley Bank robbery.

He was serving a sentence after being convicted in 2007 in a previous bank robbery.