KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A judge has agreed to delay the trial of a Pennsylvania man accused of plotting multiple armed bank robberies, including the botched robbery of a Connecticut credit union during which he strapped a bank executive with a fake bomb.

The Knoxville News Sentinel reports 44-year-old Michael Benanti of Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania, was to stand trial Monday in a Knoxville federal court on a 23-count indictment, but Benanti’s attorneys filed a bid for a last-minute delay after they lost a string of rulings in the case.Assistant U.S. Attorney David Lewen resisted the delay, but U.S. Magistrate Judge Clifford Shirley agreed to bump the trial to Jan. 30.Benanti is accused of plotting a series of violent crimes in six states and carrying out those plots in four of them.Benanti and his co-defendant, Brian Scott Witham, 45, of Waterville, Maine were arrested following a high-speed pursuit in Buncombe County, North Carolina, on Nov. 25 of last year.The two were indicted by a federal grand jury on Dec. 15 on 15 counts for involvement in “armed bank extortions.” The pair were accused of robbing the Y-12 Federal Credit Union in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in April 2015, the SmartBank in Knoxville, Tennessee, in July 2015 and the Northeast Community Credit Union in Elizabethton, Tennessee, in October 2015.The pair, if found guilty on all counts could be sentenced to a minimum of 142 years in prison. Each individual offense carries a sentence of up to life in prison.In March, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee announced that Witham had entered a guilty plea to all 15 counts of the indictment as well as similar charges brought against him in the Western District of North Carolina, the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the District of Connecticut.Some of the charges Witham pleaded guilty to included being a felon in possession of a firearm and armed robbery of the Peoples Security Bank and Trust in Clarks Summit, and a number of other bank robberies.Witham’s guilty plea included an admission that he committed these crimes with his co-defendant, Benanti.