Later on, Trevor committed crimes, the first one being a small robbery that landed him in jail for six months.
Putnam County, though, has had eight bank robberies in the first six months of the year, after just one bank robbery in 2006, said Jim Margolin, an F.B.I. spokesman in New York.
Within the first five months of 2014, Apple-related robberies dropped 19percentt from the same period in 2013.
Street robberies are also a problem in the city - with 23,675 in the first three months of this year, a 46.2% hike on the same period in 2013.
For the first eight days following the murders, the P.G.J.D.F., under the direction of Prosecutor General Rodolfo Ríos, was single-mindedly treating the multiple homicide as a robbery.
A gang of thieves, staging the second of two robbery attempts, swaddled the head in blankets and cut its throat with a diamond saw.
Mr. Mikhaylich's first seven bank robberies were all in New York City, but his eighth was in New Jersey in late February, investigators say.
Mr. South was sentenced to eight years to life for attempted robbery in the first degree, six years to life for second-degree assault, and two to four years for attempted robbery in the third degree.
(This is the first of two articles on the armored-car robbery).
The first known robbery was at a Chase Bank on Feb. 12 in Fremont, followed by two robberies on March 1.
