A Hudson man pleaded guilty on Wednesday in federal court to robbing a Bank of America in Bedford in May.

Kevin Geary, 28, entered his plea on one count of bank robbery in U.S. District Court. He will be sentenced Jan. 3 by Chief Justice Joseph LaPlante.

Federal prosecutors have not yet revealed what sentence they will argue for Geary. He faces a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in federal prison and up to a $250,000 fine.

Geary walked into the Bank of America on South River Road in Bedford on May 7 and remained on the lam for nearly a week until he was apprehended by a state trooper, according to police. Geary, dressed in a baseball cap and hooded sweatshirt, passed a note to a teller demanding cash and made off with an undisclosed sum of money, police said.

Police obtained an arrest warrant the next day and released a photo of him from bank surveillance footage.

State Trooper William Burke spotted Geary five days later while driving northbound on Interstate 93 in Manchester.

Geary was driving a stolen 1995 lime green Plymouth Neon that he used in the robbery as a getaway car, police said.

Burke pulled the car over about 12:05 p.m. on Interstate 293 north near Brown Avenue. Geary was arrested without incident.

At the time of his arrest, Geary also had an outstanding warrant for receiving stolen property. He has previous convictions for possession of heroin, two counts of theft and shoplifting from 2005, according to court records.

He received suspended sentences on all of those previous cases, court records say.

Geary was indicted by a federal grand jury in July on one count of bank robbery. He has remained jailed on $100,000 bail since his arrest.

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