A 64-year-old man “tricked” an Anaheim bank worker to help him steal more than $167,000 with a “crazy, made-up story” to get his family out of debt, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday in the defendant’s trial.

Charles Craig Clements was previously convicted of the Jan. 27, 2009, bank heist, but he won a new trial on kidnapping charges from the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in October because of the misuse of a jailhouse snitch in the prosecution.

“This guy right here, Charles Clements, you’re going to hear robbed the Bank of the West,” Deputy District Attorney Rebecca Garcia said. “And he did it by kidnapping two women.”

Clements’ attorney, Lisa Leversen, reserved an opening statement until later in the trial.

Clements was sentenced in January 2012 to two life terms plus 18 years

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