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April 18, 2007

Providence bank robber gets 11 years

PROVIDENCE – A city man has been sentenced today in federal court to 11 years in prison for robbing a Bank of America branch in September.

John F. Robinson, 39, formerly of Veazie Street, was also ordered to make $2,549 restitution to the bank, the office of U.S. Attorney Robert Clark Corrente said in a news release.

U.S. District Court Judge Ernest C. Torres imposed the sentence in U.S. District Court, Providence, after Robinson pleaded guilty in January to a federal bank robbery charge.

At the plea hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney James H. Leavey said that the government could prove that Robinson went into the Bank of America branch on Atwells Avenue on Sept. 29, and, with a sweater covering his mouth, passed a teller a note that said, “Give me all the money or I will hurt you.”

The teller gave him $2,549, plus a dye pack, and Robinson left the bank.

Police arrested Robinson three days later, after two tellers identified him in photographs. Robinson told police that he used the money to buy drugs.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 2:07 PM | Permalink

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