A man who said he was facing the prospect of being homeless when he robbed an Overland Park bank has been sentenced to 57 months in federal prison.

Thomas Crowl, 64, had been living at the VA Hospital in Leavenworth, Kan., but said he was told he could no longer live there.

Crowl pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery for a hold up at the Metcalf Bank branch in Overland Park on May 22, 2012.

Wearing khaki pants, hawaiian shirt, a black hat and sunglasses, Crowl entered the bank and approached a teller. He gave the teller a note demanding money and stating there was a bomb in a box that he placed on the counter. After the teller gave him money, he left the bank with the money and the box. Crowl later told investigators there was no bomb in the box.

Crowl was arrested later that day at the La Quinta Inn Hotel at 10610 Marty Street in Overland Park. Crowl told investigators had been released from prison in June 2011 after serving a sentence for bank robbery. He lived for a while in a halfway house and then moved to the VA Hospital. He said he recently had been told he could no longer stay at the VA Hospital. He said he had nowhere else to live.