More than five years in the federal pen for Dumont bank robber

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An unemployed security guard was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release today for his role in a $150,000 robbery from a Mariner’s Bank branch in Dumont last summer.

Jerry DeMarco

06/01/2010 7:17 p.m.

Quattara and Jariko Alberto Marzan, both of the Bronx, burst into the Washington Avenue branch of the bank around closing time July 30, wearing ski masks, with Marzan waving a handgun.

They forced the branch manager and a teller to open the vault and then bolted with $148,685, authorities said. Witnesses saw them get into a champagne-colored Honda with specialty wheel rims — not too difficult to spot.

Sure enough, Fort Lee police spotted the vehicle and chased it across the George Washington Bridge into Washington Heights, where there was a crash quickly followed by two arrests.

Quattara, 21, was carrying a bag with about $45,000, including several “bait” bills. The rest of the dough was inside the car, along with a .32-caliber Smith & Wesson used in the robbery.

Marzan pleaded guilty Nov. 23, followed soon after by Quattara.|

U.S. District Court Judge Stanley Chesler sentenced Marzan to 70 months in prison on March 11 before announcing Quattara’s term today.

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