Rios sentenced to 13 years
FEURA BUSH — Rodolfo Rios, 52, of Feura Bush, attempted to rob an Albany bank two months after being released for armed robbery of a different Albany bank.
He was sentenced last Friday to 13 years in state prison, to be followed by five years of post-release supervision, before Judge Roger McDonough in Albany County Supreme Court.
On Dec. 22, 2014, Rios had pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree attempted robbery, a felony.
The Albany County District Attorney’s Office described the crime unfolding this way: On Dec. 18, 2013, at about 11:30 a.m., officers from the Albany Police Department responded to the M&T Bank, at 80 State Street, for a report of a robbery.
The report stated that a male suspect had entered the bank armed with a knife and demanded money from a teller. The teller complied and the suspect fled the scene with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Shortly after the incident, an Albany Police Officer saw a person matching the robber’s description and apprehended Rios, who was found in possession of the money, a knife, and a plastic baggie containing crack cocaine.
This is not Rios’s first conviction.
In 2006, he was convicted for the armed robbery of the Citizens Bank at 10 North Pearl Street in Albany. Rios was sentenced to nine-and-a-half years in state prison for that incident and was released to the supervision of New York State Parole on Oct. 9, 2013.
Assistant District Attorney Linda Griggs prosecuted this case.