BANGOR – The man who confessed to robbing a Skowhegan bank of $15,000 in January and four Missouri banks last year was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court to more than six years in prison.

Shane S. Carmen, 31, of Skowhegan also was sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $105,000 in restitution to the institutions he admitted to robbing.

He pleaded guilty to the charges in May in a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s offices in Maine and Missouri.

Jeffrey Silverstein, Carmen’s court-appointed Bangor attorney, said Wednesday afternoon that his client was pleased with the sentence.

Because Carmen pleaded guilty to all the charges at once and accepted responsibility for his actions, his sentence was shorter than if he had pleaded to them separately, according to his attorney.

Carmen did not display a weapon during the robbery of the Franklin Savings Bank on Jan. 28 in Skowhegan. He was arrested a week after the robbery when 34 law enforcement officers executed two search warrants – one at his rented home in Skowhegan and the other on his car.

In other court action, Juan Traveras, 23, of Worcester, Mass., was sentenced Wednesday to nearly 10 years in prison on federal drug charges for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and heroin followed by four years of supervised released.

He was arrested in Augusta last September when he left a child’s toy containing the drugs on the grounds of a local school.

A Kennebec County man was sentenced to 15 months in prison for possession of an explosive device by a prohibited person.

Marc Lizzotte Sr., 40, also was sentenced to three years of supervised release. Lizzotte was prohibited from possessing firearms or explosives due to previous convictions for domestic violence.

He claimed that he bought the explosives, described in the indictment as dynamite, to use for a pyrotechnic display.

Lizzotte pleaded guilty in May to the least serious of the three counts with which he was charged in a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The other two charges were dropped.

Randall C. Palmer, 53, of Gardiner, was sentenced to six months of house arrest, two years probation and was ordered to pay a $2,000 fine for illegally selling firearms without a license.

Palmer, who at one time owned more than 300 guns, pleaded guilty in June to selling two firearms illegally to agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in New Hampshire who contacted him after he placed an ad in Uncle Henry’s.

Previously, he voluntarily forfeited more than 100 firearms to the federal government. Palmer was allowed to keep the antique weapons he owned.

Palmer, who described himself as a collector, testified Wednesday that 12 law enforcement officials raided his home on July 6, 2001, demanding to know where he kept his “cannon and machine guns.”

The agents seized rifles, shotguns, pistols and other types of handguns, but found no cannon or machine guns, according to Palmer.