TRENTON—A Newark, New Jersey man was
sentenced today to 96 months in prison for robbing eight banks and attempting
to rob a ninth bank during a two-month spree throughout New Jersey between June
25, 2010 and August 17, 2010, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
Nathaniel Barreto, 30, previously
pleaded guilty to an information charging him with one count of bank robbery
and admitted to eight other bank robberies and one attempted bank robbery
before U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson, who imposed the sentence today in
Trenton federal court.
According to documents filed in this
case and statements made in court:
Barreto also admitted to brandishing
what appeared to be a firearm during each of the bank robberies and the
attempted bank robbery.
Barreto’s bank robbery spree came to an
end following the August 17, 2010 bank robbery, when a witness saw Barreto get
into a car driven by his accomplice and noted the license plate number, which
matched the plate on a car found abandoned near a wooded area. Barreto and his
accomplice were both apprehended in the woods nearby.
In addition to the prison term, Judge
Wolfson sentenced Barreto to three years of supervised release and ordered him
to pay $112,515 in restitution.
U.S. Attorney Fishman credited the FBI,
under the direction of Michael B. Ward in Newark; along with the Hanover
Township Police Department; the Morris County Sheriff’s Office; the New Jersey
State Police; and the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office for the investigation
leading to today’s sentence.
The government is represented by
Assistant U.S. Attorney Shirley U. Emehelu of the U.S. Attorney’s Office Economic
Crimes Unit in Newark.
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