CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) - A suburban New York man who admitted robbing banks while he was staying at a halfway house for prior bank robbery convictions is going to prison for 15 years.
Steven Bertuglia was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Central Islip, on Long Island.
Prosecutors say Bertuglia pleaded guilty to committing two bank robberies while staying at a halfway house. He was there from his prior convictions for a string of 14 bank robberies in 2007.
He was released in 2011 and sent to a halfway house in Brooklyn. While staying there, Bertuglia rented a car that June and robbed a bank in Hicksville. Prosecutors noted he had robbed the same bank four years earlier.
He then robbed another bank a week later in Farmingville.
He was arrested in January 2012.
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