Serial Bank Robber Sentenced to Ninety-Two Months in Prison.
Poughkeepsie resident Frank Scott Surico who pled guilty last July to having committed six bank robberies was sentenced yesterday to ninety- two months in federal prison. The robberies were committed in the beginning of this year at the following banks: the Webster Bank in Brookfield, Connecticut, the citizen Bank in New Windsor, New York, the Fairfield Bank in Danbury Connecticut, the Catskill Hudson Bank in Middletown, New York and the Citizens Bank in Matamoras, Pennsylvania. He also attempted to rob the Mid Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union in Middletown, New York. His modus operandi was to go up to the tellers, put a plastic bag on the counter, instruct the tellers to put money in the bag and then walk out. He stole a total of approximately twenty three thousand dollars.
