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Disguised Garfield, Teaneck Bank Robber Gets Three Years In Federal Prison Disguised Garfield, Teaneck Bank Robber Gets Three Years In Federal Prison
Disguised Garfield, Teaneck Bank Robber Gets Three Years In Federal Prison A Passaic woman who went on a two-month bank robbery spree with another woman that stretched from Teaneck to the Poconos last year -- and included them wearing hijabs and nuns' habits as disguises -- was sentenced Wednesday to 37 months in federal prison. There's no parole in the federal prison system, meaning that 24-year-old Melissa Aquino Arias will have to serve just about all of the sentence. Arias told a judge in U.S. District Court in Newark in June that she and accomplice Swahilys Pedraza-Rodriguez, 20, of New Haven, CT dressed as nuns in a failed attempt to rob a bank in Tannersvil…

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by Jerry DeMarco