WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A former Windsor man will spend four years in prison after he admitted to robbing a Mascoma Bank branch in White River Junction last January.
Stephen Lynch, 29, pleaded guilty to one count of larceny from a person Monday in Windsor Superior Court. In addition to the four-year sentence, Judge Elizabeth Mann ordered Lynch to pay nearly $3,000 restitution. Lynch’s prison sentence began Monday.
The sentence comes almost a year after Lynch entered the bank on Maple Street on Jan. 7, handed a note to the teller, and fled to a waiting car with $5,000 of stolen cash, prosecutors have said.
According to prosecutors, 24-year-old Katelyn Grizzaffi, of Lebanon, was driving the getaway car. An affidavit written by Hartford police officer Scott Moody said Grizzaffi and Lynch had stopped in White River Junction after the robbery to order drugs and pay a drug debt.
The two were pulled over about 90 minutes after the incident as they were driving south on Interstate 91 in Massachusetts.
Grizzaffi pleaded not guilty in April to aiding Lynch in the robbery and was released on a $10,000 bail.
According to a supplemental affidavit also written by Moody, Lynch told investigators that he has been a member of the Los Solidos gang in Connecticut since he was eight years old. Moody wrote that the gang’s “main source of income is from the sale of illicit controlled substances, primarily heroin, and that they have a propensity toward violence.”