Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Rookie NY Cop Who Robbed Bank Tells Fed Judge He Was Struggling to Pay Bills


Well, this was certainly more, as they would say, than a rookie mistake.

By Tom Hays
Associated Press
NEW YORK – A former rookie police officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to robbing the same bank twice after a friend who worked as a teller there convinced him it would be “easy money.”

Christian Torres, 23, told a federal judge that he was struggling to pay his bills when he hatched the inside job with the teller, Christina Dasrath, in 2007.

“It was premeditated,” he said. “We discussed … how we would split (the money) in the end.”

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