Kingston man guilty in July ’17 bank heist
Was arrested on day of robbery
KINGSTON, N.Y. » A 27-year-old Kingston man was convicted Friday of robbing the Key Bank branch on Wall Street in Uptown Kingston last summer.
Bradley Cook was convicted of felony robbery by an Ulster County Court jury, according to the county District Attorney’s Office. He is to be sentenced May 25 by County Judge Donald A. Williams.
Cook walked into the Key Bank branch about 2:45 p.m. July 24, 2017, dressed in a black hoodie, a baseball hat, black sunglasses, a scarf covering his neck and chin, and latex gloves, according to the District Attorney’s Office. Cook then approached a teller and handed her a note demanding money, according to the prosecutor’s office.
“The note stated, ‘no tracers, no dye bags, no police, nobody gets hurt,’” a press release from the District Attorney’s Office said. The release said the teller gave Cook $699, and he left the
bank through a rear door.
No weapon was displayed, police said at the time.
Cook was taken into custody later the same day by the Kingston Police Department and confessed to the crime, the District Attorney’s Office said.
An Ulster County grand jury indicted Cook for the felony robbery in September.
The case was prosecuted
by Ulster County Chief Assistant District Attorney Michael Kavanagh. Cook was represented by Thomas Petro.
The July 24 robbery was the fourth at the Uptown Kingston Key Bank branch in a span of eight years. The others were on March 27, 2009, March 31, 2009, and Jan. 10, 2011.
And the branch has been robbed once since, this past Jan. 18. The suspect in that case, Ryan J. O’Connor, 30, of Staco Road, Hannacroix, was charged with felony robbery and is awaiting trial.