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An Omaha man was sentenced to life in prison Monday, according to United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg.Quantal Blake, 29, was convicted on May 28, 2015, of two counts of bank robbery and one count attempted bank robbery.The Premier Bank located near 114th Street and West Dodge Road was robbed around 11:15 a.m. Thursday when two men entered the business and demanded money, police said.The vehicle they had stolen the night before and used in the robbery was recovered and abandoned a few blocks away from the bank.On March 20, 2014, around 8:40 a.m., two men with masks drove to the front door of the same bank, the passenger got out of the vehicle that had been stolen the day before and attempted to enter the bank. The lobby was not open yet so the men fled the area, hitting another vehicle in the process and abandoned the vehicle a short distance away. Later the same day, two men entered the First Westroads Bank near 98th Street and robbed the bank, abandoning the vehicle used in this robbery not far from the bank.Omaha Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation developed Blake as a suspect and determined Blake was on parole from a prior robbery offense. As part of parole, Blake was required to wear a monitoring device on his ankle and according to the data, Blake was tracked to the time and place of each robbery, along with both stolen vehicle locations."And when we checked the ankle bracelet against the times and the dates of the stolen vehicles, the robberies and where the stolen vehicles were left, he was there for all those events," FBI Supervisory Agent Kevin Hytrek said.Blake has been convicted of two previous violent convictions for robbery and associated weapons charges.Blake now faces a mandatory life sentence as a "Three Strikes" offender.