Man
Charged with
Robbing Bronx
Tax Biz in NYY
Cap Pled
Guilty Now
Gets 7 Years
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 2 –
Joseph
Sanders
charged with
the armed
robbery of a
tax
preparation
business on
183rd Street
and Grand
Avenue in The
Bronx on
November 2,
2022.
On March 6,
2023 U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York
Judge
Katherine Polk
Failla held a
proceeding.
Inner City
Press went and
covered it.
The complaint
has numerous
photographs
including of
the Getaway
Vehicle with
distinctive
damage to its
back corner
panel,
including
"tape lining
and holding
the panel."
The
is a photo of
the car's
license plate,
KRR 7852 -
registered to
Sanders. There
is also the
defendant, in
a New York
Yankees cap -
and a dread
locks
wig.
Sanders,
in detention,
was brought in
by US
Marshals.
His
Federal
Defender asked
for a month.
On
April 4,
unsealed were
the
prosecutors'
January and
March 2023
letters asking
for discovery
production to
be delayed to
not tip
Sanders off to
their
investigations
of March and
April 2022
robberies.
On
December 1,
2023 Judge
Failla
scheduled a
change of plea
hearing.
It
happened, and
on April 18
Sanders'
counsel filed
a request for
an 80 month
sentence.
Sentencing wa
set for May 2.
On
May 2, Sanders
got 84 months
- that is,
seven years:
"JOSEPH
SANDERS was
sentenced by
U.S. District
Judge
Katherine Polk
Failla to nine
years in
prison in
connection
with
committing 11
armed
robberies of
bodegas, smoke
shops, and
other retail
businesses
across the
Bronx, Queens,
and Brooklyn."
The case is
USA v.
Sanders,
22-cr-697
(Failla)
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