Rhode Island Man Gets 17 Years For Somerville Bank Robbery

Somerville MA

22 September, 2020

2:40 PM

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SOMERVILLE, MA — A 32-year-old Rhode Island man who earlier this year pleaded guilty to committing the armed robbery of a Sommerville bank in 2019 was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Monday, according to the U.S Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts. Daniel Rosado, of Providence, was sentenced in Boston and will serve the 17 years in addition to five years of supervised release, officials announced. Rosado pleaded guilty to one count of armed bank robbery, one count of discharging a firearm during a crime of violence and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Rosado was arrested and charged in May 2019 and has been in custody ever since, officials said in a news release. U.S. Attorney Andrew E. Lelling said in the release that while Rosado was robbing the bank, a passing police officer entered the bank and exchanged gunfire with Rosado and chased him out the door. Rosado, who temporarily eluded police, was later arrested. "Had he not been identified and arrested by the FBI's Violent Crimes Task Force, this convicted felon would still pose a significant threat to public safety. Our communities are now safer with him behind bars," Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division, said in the news release. Rosado was charged with robbing the Middlesex Federal Savings Bank in Somerville on May 1, 2019. After producing a gun, Rosado ordered customers and bank employees to get on the ground and then approached a teller with a backpack and demanded money, prosecutors said. As the teller filled the backpack with money, a customer exited the bank and flagged down a police cruiser. An officer entered the bank and pointed his gun at Rosado and ordered him to freeze. Rosado fired one shot at the officer and fled after the officer fired back, the news release said. During a foot chase, Rosado dropped the backpack from which a loaded revolver and more than $500 was recovered. Court records showed that Rosado had previous felony convictions that included witness intimidation and assault with a deadly weapon among other offenses, officials said. Those charges prohibited Rosado to possess a firearm.