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Bank Heist: ATM Stolen Using Skid Loader; PA State Police Seek Suspects
Fleeing a bank robbery, suspects made off with an ATM in Shrewsbury Township, York County, state police said.
Troop J, York Station of the Pennsylvania State Police, responded to an ATM alarm at Truist Bank at 16576 Susquehanna Trail S on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, at approximately 1:51 a.m., authorities announced.
Troopers arrived at the scene and discovered that the ATM had been stolen. Nearby, they found a skid loader left behind. Through the investigation conducted by the York Patrol Unit, it was determined that unknown suspects had stolen an older model white Ford F-450 and a skid loader w…
Maryland Man Who Robbed 5 Pennsylvania Banks Sentenced: Usdoj
A man has been sentenced after committing five bank robberies in Adams, Cumberland, and York Counties in under four months just two months after spending over a decade in a Maryland State Prison, according to an updated release by the US Department of Justice on Monday, Feb. 5.
James Henderson Bryant III, 46, of Westminster, Maryland, was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Thursday, Feb. 1, the USDOJ detailed in the release.
Bryant stole approximately $28,823 during the five robberies, which are as follows as Daily Voice previously reported:
July 19, 2021 - BB&T Bank, Hanov…
NJ Politico Gets 24 Years, No Parole, For Hiring Hit Men Who Killed, Burned Longtime Associate
UPDATE: A New Jersey political consultant was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison for hiring two hitmen to kill a longtime associate from Hudson County.
Sean Caddle, 45, of Hamburg, will have to serve just about all of the plea-bargained sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system.
Caddle, a former aide to former State Sen. Ray Lesniak (D-Elizabeth), admitted last year that he paid the killers to whack Michael Galdieri, the son of former State Sen. James Galdieri (D-Jersey City) and a prominent figure in local Hudson County politics.
Galdieri, 52, who'd worked for…
Monroe County Bank Robber Learns His Fate
A New York man convicted of robbing a Monroe County bank last September will spend five years in prison, authorities have announced.
Federal officials say Michael Muse, 44, of Brooklyn, walked into the ESSA Bank on Milford Road in Middle Smithfield Township on Sept. 16, 2021 and stole about $9,000 at gunpoint before fleeing the scene.
The firearm was later determined to be an air pistol, authorities said.
On Thursday, Oct. 27, federal Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Muse to five years imprisonment, officials said in a statement.
Bank Robbery Suspect Sought In Suburban Philly: Police
An accused bank robber is wanted by police in Delaware County in connection with a stickup on Thursday, Oct. 13, authorities say.
The suspect, identified by officials as Robert Joseph Lewis, entered the TD Bank at 2600 MacDade Blvd. at around 2:30 p.m., Glenolden police said. Lewis passed a teller a note demanding cash before fleeing the scene, they added.
Police uploaded images from the bank's surveillance cameras to Facebook on Thursday, asking for the public's aid in identifying the suspected thief. By Friday, Oct. 14, Lewis was identified and an arrest warrant was obtained, …
Serial Robber Busted After Targeting Philly Area Banks, Drugstores: Police
A serial robber in the Philadelphia area is in police custody after targeting two banks and four drugstores in the past month or so, authorities said.
Richard Lawrence, 56, of Philadelphia, was arrested and charged with five counts of robbery and related offenses on Tuesday, April 19, Abingdon Township police said.
Lawrence walked into the TD Bank on Moreland Road in Willow Grove while dressed in Muslim garb and with his face hidden, demanding that the teller give him "all the 50's and 100's" before fleeing the scene on Saturday, April 2, police said.
He apparently fled towards Philad…
Career Criminal From Connecticut, 73, Admits Committing Murder-For-Hire Of Jersey City Politico
A hardened ex-con from Connecticut admitted that he and a longtime criminal pal from Philadelphia stabbed a political consultant to death and then torched his Jersey City apartment in a murder-for-hire attack.
George Bratsenis, 73, of Monroe, CT said he and his partner were paid to whack Michael Galdieri, the son of former State Sen. James Galdieri (D-Jersey City) and a prominent figure in local Hudson County politics.
Bratsenis and the other killer, Bomani Africa, 61, were hired by onetime political operative Sean Caddle, who’d been an aide to former State Sen. Ray Lesniak (D-Elizabeth) a…
Serial Bank Robber Who Nearly Killed PA Trooper Trying To Arrest Him Gets 25 Years
A serial bank robber who nearly killed a Pennsylvania State Police trooper trying to arrest him was sentenced to 25 years in prison, authorities said.
Christopher Larue, 44, was on supervised release after serving a 12-year prison sentence when he entered the QNB Bank in Perkasie brandishing a gun and robbing the bank of $11,000 on Oct. 19, 2020, United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams said.
Larue, of Lansdale, was convicted in 2009 of five additional bank robberies, the attorney said.
So, he fled, but a GPS tracking device hidden with the stolen money quickly le…
South Jersey Dad, Philly Son Arrested By US Marshals After Armed Bank Robbery, Prosecutor Says
A father from South Jersey and his son, from Philadelphia, have been arrested by U.S. Marshals in connection with an alleged bank robbery, authorities said.
The alleged heist of an undisclosed amount of cash occurred on April 26 at Fulton Bank in Voorhees Township, according to Acting Camden County Prosecutor Jill S. Mayer and Voorhees Township Police Chief Louis Bordi.
One of the suspects was arrested at his home in Camden County last month, while the second was arrested in Philadelphia on Monday, Mayer and Bordi said in a statement.
Jermaine Johnson, 43, of Haddonfield, NJ, was arre…
