A serial bank robber who recently completed a 10-year prison term in California will spend the rest of his life behind bars in Nevada as a habitual criminal. A judge in Reno sentenced 62-year-old Stephen Bartlett this week to life in prison without parole based on a criminal history that includes 37 felonies. Prosecutors say 13 years ago he escaped from a Nevada correctional camp and duped a local supplier into handing over $9,000 worth of copper pipes he claimed he ordered for a state prison. He was apprehended and pleaded guilty but skipped out on his sentencing. He was later arrested as the suspected “Hills Bandit” in 10 bank robberies in Southern California.
