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<h1 style="font-size: 13px; ">Remember to not brag on Facebook if you do anything criminal!</h1><h1>Guilty plea in Mendocino County bank, bookstore heists</h1>
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<li>A Mendocino Coast man has pleaded guilty to robbing a Ukiah
bank and Fort Bragg bookstore in late July, according to the Mendocino
County District Attorney's Office.</li></ul></div><article class="article-main"><div id="page1" style="display:block;"><p>Flynn Washburne, 51, also posted veiled confessions on Facebook, according to the prosecutor's office.</p><p>He
faces up to eight years in prison for the two counts of robbery.
Washburne admitted to robbing the Bank of America and Cheshire Books
shortly after his arrest in early August, according to Fort Bragg
police.</p><p>Law enforcement officers were seeking Washburne as a
suspect in the Bank of America robbery when the bookstore was held up,
with the robber using what turned out to be a toy gun. Bank surveillance
cameras captured images of him during the heist, officials said.</p><p>After
the bank heist, he posted to Facebook: "Well, people. I've advanced
into the big leagues. Without going into too much detail, I have
definitely stopped fence straddling in the matter of being a criminal or
not," according to the District Attorney's Office.</p><p>After his
arrest, a Facebook posting by proxy read: "Cavalier posts regarding my
criminal acts seem ill-advised and inappropriate."</p><p>Contact Staff Writer Glenda Anderson at 462-6473 or <a href="mailto:glenda.anderson@pressdemocrat.com">glenda.anderson@pressdemocrat.com</a>.</p></div></article></section></body></html>