| Gas Station Robbery On City
Island In The Bronx In July Yields Guilty Plea
In December
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
Song
BBC
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 4 – A man in a surgical
mask robbed a gas station on
City Island in The Bronx on
July 28, 2020.
There was a
security video, and on it he
briefly took down his
mask.
Soon a
Wanted poster yielded two
anonymous tip to the police,
with the perpetrator's name
Michael O'Neill being given
and even his address.
By August
25 a Federal complaint for
Hobbs Act robbery was sworn
out and he was arrested.
On December
4, U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Denise L. Cote held a
change of plea proceeding.
Inner City Press covered
it.
O'Neill, with a
Federal Defender, was
admitting to robbery but
saying that it was not a gun
he used, but rather an
unidentified "tool."
Likewise, the
theft of the gas station
attendant's cell phone which
was in the Complaint was no
longer mentioned. So he faces
up to 41 months.
Here is
this reporter's Dec 5 song
based (loosely) off this,
called CourtCall, here.
The sentencing is
set for March 5 at noon.
The case is US v.
O'Neill, 20-cr-488 (Cote)
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