Ex-NYC officer sentenced in Pa bank heist

By 6abc
PHILADELPHIA - May 11, 2009 - /*Christian Torres*/ was sentenced Monday in federal court in Philadelphia.

Prosecutors say the 22-year-old Torres stole $113,000 in the April 2008 heist of the Sovereign Bank branch in Reading. The money has been recovered.

Authorities say he held a gun on three female tellers, one of them nine months pregnant.

Torres is also facing bank robbery charges in New York.

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