Saratoga Springs bank robber gets 10 year sentence

A 50-year-old Saratoga Springs man who robbed a bank across the street from where he lived is facing 10 years in state prison.

Prosecutors say Michael Suprenant walked into the Saratoga National Bank on Broadway last June, handing the teller a not demanding money and making off with $12,850.

As checkpoints were set up at exits from the city, police spotted a man fitting witnesses' descriptions of the robber sitting in a cab outside a diner.

Suprenant was discovered with approximately $3,000 in cash -- still in bank wrappers -- sticking out of his pocket. He pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery in May.

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