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  • Accused six-time bank robber freed by state bail reforms is finally jailed - by the feds (NY)

    01/18/2020 8:44:56 AM PST · by Libloather · 5 replies
    NY Post ^ | 1/17/20 | Rebecca Rosenberg, Bruce Golding
    An accused, six-time bank robber who’s become the face of all that’s wrong with New York’s new bail-reform law is now finally in jail - thanks to federal prosecutors, who have seized control of his case and done what no state judge was free to do. Gerod Woodberry turned himself in at the Manhattan Criminal Court building on Centre Street around 4 p.m., Friday - 18 days after his alleged spree began. “I’m Woodberry,” he told a court worker. “I’m the one that’s been robbing banks.” The feds promptly scooped him up, arguing that Woodberry, 42, had been arrested, then...
  • Serial robbery suspect freed with no bail — then allegedly robs another bank

    01/11/2020 5:20:30 PM PST · by karpov · 19 replies
    New York Post ^ | January 11, 2020 | Larry Celona, Ben Feuerherd and Ruth Weissmann
    He’s laughing all the way to the next bank. A John Dillinger wannabe is on the loose thanks to lax bail laws that set him free despite his arrest in connection to four Manhattan bank robberies. Sprung on Thursday, he promptly robbed a fifth bank, in Brooklyn, on Friday, law enforcement sources told The Post. So cops spent Saturday hunting once again for fugitive Gerod Woodberry, who allegedly pulled four heists at Chase banks in Chelsea, the Upper West Side and the West Village between Dec. 30 and Jan. 8. Because Woodberry allegedly robbed using a note, rather than a...