NEWARK, N.J. – An Elizabeth, New Jersey, man was sentenced
today to 115 months in prison for robbing four banks in January 2017, including
a TD Bank in Bergen County, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito
announced.
Israel Cosme, 36, previously pleaded guilty before U.S.
District Judge Esther Salas to an information charging him with four counts of
bank robbery. Judge Salas imposed the sentence today in Newark federal court.
Cosme was originally arrested Jan. 24, 2017 in connection with two of the bank
robberies committed in Maryland.
According to documents filed in this case and statements
made in court:
Cosme admitted that on Jan. 15, 2017, he robbed a TD Bank in
Little Ferry, New Jersey. During the robbery, Cosme verbally demanded money and
told a teller that he would shoot her if she didn’t comply.
Cosme also admitted robbing a TD Bank in New York on Jan.
12, 2017; a TD Bank in Essex, Maryland, on Jan. 22, 2017; and a TD Bank in
Baltimore, Maryland, on Jan. 23, 2017. During all three of these robberies,
Cosme handed tellers a note demanding money and stating that he had a gun.
In addition to the prison term, Judge Salas sentenced Cosme
to three years of supervised release.
U.S. Attorney Carpenito credited special agents of the FBI,
under the direction of Acting Special Agent in Charge Bradley W. Cohen in
Newark, with the investigation. He also thanked the Little Ferry Police
Department, under the direction of Chief Ralph Verdi, for its assistance.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney
Jason S. Gould of the U.S. Attorney’s Office Criminal Division in Newark.
Defense counsel: K. Anthony Thomas Esq., Assistant Federal
Public Defender, Newark
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