The jobless Washington state restaurant worker accused of robbing the Lusk State Bank last August 26 and at least 6 others in 3 states in the following 6 weeks is apparently ready to plead guilty to at least some of them, in the the Lusk holdup.

49-year old Carl Frederick Kieffer of Spokane has pleaded Not Guilty in federal court in East St Louis, Ill, but is now scheduled for a change-of-plea hearing on the bank robbery charges involving the heists in Lusk, Novi and Charlotte, Michigan; Tipp City and Bolivar, Ohio; and Farmersville, Ill.

Kieffer was arrested in a cornfield following a police chase after he allegedly robbed a bank in O’Fallon, Ill, just east of St Louis, of $3,000.

The FBI says Kieffer admitted robbing the banks, and he has asserted in court papers that he went on his bank-robbing spree because he had overwhelming…including $600,000 in hospital bills, though he did not specify his health issues.