Aurora Barrera, 33, and the ex-boyfriend, 36-year-old Reyes "Ray Vegaa, were found guilty of multiple bank robbery offenses in March after a weeklong trial.
Since January, there have been 58 cabby robberies in the northern Brooklyn neighborhoods, 32 of which occurred in taxis carrying multiple passengers.
They are also behind many banks robberies in the region.
In another case, Javon Julien, 17 at the time, was charged with four others of multiple felony counts, including robbery in the first degree and gang assault, both felonies, for what the police said was an attack on two men in April 2010 as they walked along the Grand Concourse.
A man was discovered with multiple gunshot wounds following a robbery in Marion, Ohio, Monday night.
A man in his 20s was shot multiple times, possibly during a robbery, in a commercial area of North Sacramento, Calif., Friday night.
The indictment also alleged special circumstances of torture, multiple murder, robbery, rape, burglary and oral copulation.
Mr. Smith, 31, and Mr. Salley, 29, are each charged with multiple counts of murder, attempted murder and robbery in the shooting deaths last May.
The men, Andre Smith, 31, and Sean Salley, 29, are each charged with multiple counts of murder, attempted murder and robbery in the shooting deaths in an apartment above the Midtown delicatessen last May.
O'Laughlin was found with multiple stab wounds late last year, after apparently interrupting a robbery in progress at her home when she returned from school.
