ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) – An Illinois man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman he took hostage at gunpoint last year during a bank robbery that led to a police standoff. The Rockford Register Star reports that 39-year-old Nicholas August was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty to two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon. Police said that during a January 2020 robbery the Rockford man threatened employees at Heritage Credit Union in Rockford with a pellet gun that resembled a real handgun. He held a woman employee hostage during a police standoff that lasted nearly seven hours.
