Detective Pentangelo said that Mr. Soto walked into the Midtown North station house on West 54th Street yesterday at 8 30 a.m., confessed to the robbery and handed over $4,000.
Lawyers for the two defendants, Eric Glisson and Cathy Watkins, recently asked that their convictions be lifted in light of recent findings by an investigator with the United States attorney's office in Manhattan, which revealed that two former gang members in the Bronx had confessed to the robbery and fatal shooting of the driver, Baithe Diop.
Kendall said he confessed to the robbery, in which no one was harmed.
Police say Stein confessed to the robbery and claimed he never had a real bomb.
In 1994 they were convicted after being implicated in the crime by three young Black men who confessed to the robbery in exchange of a plea bargain that gave them 10 months.
He confessed to the robberies after his mother turned him in, and spent time in a juvenile facility.
Boyle confessed to eight robberies in which he'd deprived the banks of more than $100,000.
Regarding his attempts to be arrested, he told the court: "I confessed to an armed robbery 10 years ago...I wanted to come jail so I could clean up and do my things.
J.D.B. confessed to committing the robberies.
Ryan and friends, obviously realizing that their lies were about to catch up to them, quickly tried to flee back to the U.S. Ryan- who I feel was the ring leader of the whole thing- managed to hop on a plane and fly away to the safety of America, while his teammates were caught and held in Rio, where they eventually confessed to lying about the robbery story.
Once out on the street again, he returned to a life of crime, Commissioner Safir said, adding that Mr. Tolbert has confessed to one other murder, a bank robbery, two other robberies, an attempted robbery and three shootings over the last 11 months.
