NIAGARA COUNTY COURT
Robber of Niagara Falls bank gets five years
LOCKPORT — A man already serving time for an armed bank robbery in Colorado will have to return here after that to serve five years for a similar holdup in Niagara Falls.
Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Sperrazza imposed that sentence Friday on Christopher
T. Roberts, 22, formerly of Ninth Street in Niagara Falls. He had pleaded guilty June 6 to a reduced charge of attempted second-degree robbery.
Roberts is serving a 10-year sentence in a Colorado state prison for a 2005 bank robbery.
He returned to Niagara Falls and stole $3,400 at gunpoint from the M&T Bank at 750 Main St. on March 23, 2006.
In other action Friday:
• A Royalton man allegedly caught trying to break into the former Nabisco plant in Niagara Falls pleaded not guilty at his arraignment.
Raymond M. Burley, 21, of Akron Road, is charged with attempted third-degree burglary and third-degree criminal trespass.
Deputy District Attorney Holly E. Sloma said Burley was caught May 23 on a second-story roof trying to get into a door that workers were strengthening after a break-in the previous night, in which someone tried to remove copper pipes from the plant.
• Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy placed Larnelle
M. Cobham, 20, of Rivershore Drive, Niagara Falls, on five years’ probation for fourth-degree criminal possession of cocaine.
The incident occurred Aug. 6 at Louisiana Avenue and Portland Street in the Town of Niagara, where Cobham was found semiconscious on the side of the road. Murphy also ordered Cobham to serve 20 weekends in the county work program.
• Acting County Judge William
J. Watson sent a Lewiston man to prison for one to three years for violating the terms of his probation.
Phillip D. Neiswonger, 34, of Langdon Road, was placed on probation in December 2005 for felony DWI earlier that year in the Town of Niagara.
• Timothy A. Downie, 47, of East Falls Street, Niagara Falls, was sent to the county jail for a year by Sperrazza for violating probation from a 2002 felony DWI case.
