BUFFALO, N.Y. — A Buffalo man, already convicted and serving time for one bank robbery, will serve more time behind bars after being found guilty of additional crimes.
Joseph Licata, 52, was previously convicted in 2010 of robbing a Buffalo bank and was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison.
The US Attorney's office says Licata escaped from the US Penitentiary Coleman II in Sumterville, Florida in January 2020 and then four days later he held up the M&T Bank on Grant St. in Buffalo, threatening the teller if the teller did not give him cash. Later that same day, the US Attorney's office says he robbed the Speedway Gas station on Elmwood Ave.
US District Court Judge John Sinatra, Jr. Friday sentenced him to 151 months in prison for these latest crimes.
