PITTSBURGH — Patrick Acierno posted to Facebook in August 2018 that he needed “to knock off a bank or something.”

Two weeks later, he followed suit at the PNC Bank in Cranberry Township.

Then, he robbed three more banks across seven months.

He'll now spend nearly five years in a federal penitentiary.

At a sentencing Thursday, U.S. District Judge Donetta W. Ambrose handed down Acierno's punishment of 57 months in confinement, which are to be followed by three years of supervised release, for robbing four banks across three counties between September 2018 and March 2019.

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