April 13, 2008
Feds Will Charge Suspected Rookie Cop Bank Robber
The federal authorities are likely to charge the police officer accused of robbing $113,000 from a Sovereign bank in Pennsylvania. Christian Torres, who was arrested on Thursday, is now also suspected of robbing two other banks in Manhattan last year. The 21-year-old transit cop, held at Berks County Jail in Pennsylvania, is on suicide watch.
Torres's lawyer told the NY Times, "Paperwork has been filed with the prison, meaning if he tries to make bail or the case gets dismissed, that he should be detained on the pending or filed federal charges." No charges have been filed yet for the Manhattan robberies, as the NYPD and FBI are investigating those two incidents, which also took place at Sovereign banks.
The NYPD said Torres used proceeds of his robberies last year to buy a car, an engagement ring, and pay off student loans. His friends and family are shocked. His father told the Daily News that when he heard about the arrest, he drove from Miami to the Bronx, where his ex-wife lives. Ray Torres said, "He never made it seem like he was in dire financial need."
A neighbor of Torres's mother who used him as a good example for her son wondered to the Times, “What could have happened to him to make him do something like this?” But one of Torres's neighbors in Queens said to the Post, "Damn, if I would have known that s- - -, I would have robbed his ass, cop or no cop."
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wow the wife is hot. i would so rob a bank for her.
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I don't think a engagement ring and a car are considered "dire financial needs."
His wife isn't that hot. Maybe it's just the picture.
The woman is hardly hot. In fact she barely passes the no barf look.
What's with the suicide watch shit? If the dude realizes that he totally fucked up his life and will never see a decent future let him kill himself. Save the taxpayers dollars and all the lawyer bullshit expenses. Give him extra bed linens and park him on the eight floor with the window open.
Snoopy, why do you and the other maniacs want anyone who runs afoul of the law to kill themselves? What's with you and suicide? What is it like to watch the evening news with you? Do you shout at the TV screen? Did you graduate from high school?
snoopy is right, we live in a finite world. all the resources are wasted on a man that wasted life.
At least he's still young - I would think that he'll be out by his early thirties. He'll come to realize that the twenties are really overrated...
Charmie,
I am only suggesting that man has a right to choose the direction that they want as long as it doesn't directly affect another person's physical being. Fuck the emotional side.
I wonder if she is still with him.
i'm sure she wouldn't be cause he isn't producing any more new diamonds. plus he probably be some guys bitch inside.
Sean Bell was shot by pigs like you. For Shame.
I love all the hearts bleeding for this guy. No really, its priceless.