A bank robber nabbed by police who followed a trail of money that led to where he was hiding last fall was sentenced to three years and eight months in prison for burglarizing two institutions.
Kendrick Dorice Roby Jr., 24, received the collective term for robbing two Redwood City banks, the U.S. Bank on Oct. 12 followed 10 days later by the robbery of Compass Bank on Woodside Road. He pleaded no contest to felony counts of burglary and robbery.
Redwood City police arrested Roby, a San Mateo parolee on realignment release and with a felony warrant for his arrest, after finding bills that had fallen out of the robber's bag as he fled Compass Bank with $3,064. The money led to a Hudson Street home where they found Roby with the stolen money and a dye pack.
The suspect in the bank heist had jumped over the counter, pretending to have a gun his pocket, and warning two clerks he would shoot them if they did not comply with his demands for money. However, Roby told authorities he only faked having a gun. The two bank employees later identified Roby as the robber.
After Roby's arrest, Redwood City detectives noted similarities between that bank robbery and an earlier crime at U.S. Bank in which a suspect jumped over the counter, told employees not to move and took $1,500 in cash. The police looked at the video surveillance photographs from the Oct. 12 incident and Roby was charged in that robbery, too.
Roby received one year prison for the first robbery and two years and eight months for the second. In addition to the prison time, Roby must also repay the two banks.
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