Kingston bank heist suspect indicted
An Ulster County grand jury has indicted a Kingston man in the July 24 robbery of the Key Bank branch on Wall Street in the city’s Uptown business district, the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office said Monday.
Bradley Cook, 27, is accused of handing a note to a teller that instructed her to give him money and said nobody would get hurt if she cooperated, according to a press release from the prosecutor’s office.
Cook fled through the back door of the bank at 267 Wall St. after the 2:45 p.m. robbery, police said at the time. He was arrested the next day and charged with felony robbery.
The grand jury indicted Cook on that charge Monday, meaning it found enough evidence for him to stand trial.
No weapon was displayed during the robbery and no one was injured, police said at the time. Police said Cook made off with an undisclosed amount of money, and they did not say whether any or all of the cash was recovered.
Police said Cook has a criminal history but that none of his arrests were for robbery. The Freeman’s online archive shows he was charged in March 2015 in Kingston with criminal possession of a weapon, a misdemeanor, in a case involving metal knuckles.
Cook is to be arraigned in the robbery case later this week in Ulster County Court. He was being held at the Ulster County Jail on Monday in lieu of $100,000 bail.
The July 24 robbery was the fourth at the Key Bank branch in a span of eight years. The others were on March 27, 2009, March 31, 2009, and Jan. 10, 2011.