Bank Teller Conspired With NYPD Officer in Heists
By Diane Smith
11:30, April 18th 2008
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Bank Teller Conspired  With NYPD Officer in Heists

A bank teller who was put under arrest on Thursday and charged for conspiring with the NYPD cadet/serial bank rubber confessed that she was involved in the heists.

Christina Dasrath admitted that she disclosed the security procedures that helped Christian Torres break in the Manhattan Sovereign Bank branch at 57 Avenue A. Dasrath said that, during the heist, Torres passed her a note which said that he would start shooting if she did not empty her bank drawer, according to a police complaint written by FBI Agent Brandon Waller.

Dasrath, 20, confessed before prosecutors that, after the robbery, Torres gave her a part of the $16,305 he rubbed in January and also of the $102,000 that he took in another heist at the same bank a few months later, according to the complaint released in Federal District Court in Manhattan.

After breaking the same Manhattan bank twice, Torres was finally caught while trying to rub another Sovereign Bank branch in Pennsylvania.

Investigators also managed to find out how Torres spent some of the stolen money. The same day he rubbed the Manhattan bank for the second time he purchased a new car (2008 Toyota Scion) worth $18,500 and paid off a $2,500 college loan. He also bought a 1.5-carat diamond ring for his girlfriend, Jennifer Rivas.

Torres, who was already a police officer during the Pennsylvania heist, admitted the Manhattan robberies, but wouldn’t acknowledge the third one which took place in Muhlenberg, a town in northeast Pennsylvania.

All his superiors said they were shocked when they found out that Torres, a "model cadet…smart and hardworking, with tremendous potential," was actually a serial bank robber.

According to the Muhlenberg police, Torres used a real gun in the robbery of a local bank, after using a fake in the first two heists. He forced the bank’s employees into the vault and then took $113,000 in large bills using a white shopping bag to carry the cash. He fled the scene in a car.

Ms. Dasrath, who attended the same college as Torres (John Jay College of Criminal Justice), was charged with robbery, conspiracy to commit bank fraud and making false statements to the authorities. She was released on a $250,000 bond.



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