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 has pleaded guilty to federal charges involving that holdup and others in Illinois and Michigan.

49-year old Carl Frederick Kieffer of Spokane had originally pleaded Not Guilty on the bank robbery charges involving the heists in Lusk, in Novi and Charlotte, Michigan; Tipp City and Bolivar, Ohio; and Farmersville, Ill.

He will be sentenced September 4th in East St Louis, Ill.

Kieffer was arrested last October in an Illinois cornfield following a police chase after he took $3,000 from a bank in O’Fallon, Ill, just east of St Louis.

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