Man wearing ankle monitor while robbing bank sentenced to 12 years
Darren Connolly was on parole for a 2016 liquor store robbery when he robbed the Lakewood bank in 2022 while wearing a GPS monitor
A man who was wearing a GPS monitor during a 2022 bank robbery in Lakewood was sentenced to five years and three months in federal prison Tuesday.
Darren Connolly, 27, and James Trujillo, 25, robbed the Canvas Credit Union near Wadsworth Boulevard and Sixth Avenue armed with an AR-15 rifle and a shotgun on June 15, 2022, authorities said.
At the time, Connolly was on parole for a 2016 liquor store robbery. The Colorado Department of Corrections said Connolly was placed on parole in April, two months before the bank robbery.
Prosecutors said he wore his ankle monitor at the time of the bank robbery, and the monitor also revealed movement that aligned with the getaway car that was captured on surveillance cameras just before the robbery.
Connolly was arrested at his home on June 16, 2022. On Feb. 28 of this year, he pleaded guilty to bank robbery, being a felon in possession of a firearm and brandishing a weapon during a federal crime of violence.
He was also sentenced to five years of supervised release.
Trujillo was found guilty of the same charges that Connolly pleaded guilty to after a five-day jury trial. He was sentenced in September to 11 years and three months in jail, and three years of supervised release.
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