Those family reunions might be a bit...awkward

64-year-old William Alfred "Al" Ginglen was sentenced to 40 years in prison after committing a string of seven bank robberies in Illinois.

The formerly upstanding Ginglen robbed the banks after losing a couple of jobs. He supposedly did so to support a crack habit, a girlfriend, and the local prostitution industry.

How did this criminal mastermind end up in the pokey? Well...

Ginglen's double life began to unravel in 2004, when one of his sons, Peoria police officer Jared Ginglen, recognized his father on bank surveillance videos posted on a law enforcement Web site.

Jared and his two brothers, Clay and Garrett, turned their father in, saying that their dad had "taught them to always do the right thing." In hindsight, perhaps he shouldn't have been such a decent father.

Now, Al has to pay more than fifty grand in restitution for his crimes, and he probably didn't have much free time to do any Christmas shopping this year, but if he'd had the time and money, I can't help but wonder if the Ginglin boys might have found a few of these under the tree.