Former bank teller guilty in violent bank robbery

WHITE PLAINS – A federal
court jury has found a former Wells Fargo Bank branch teller in Yonkers
guilty on all counts of a three-count indictment that charged her with participating
in the robbery of the branch and with aiding and abetting the firing of
a gun during the robbery.
Virginia Blanco, 29, faces up to five years in prison on the conspiracy
conviction; up to 20 years on the charge of bank robbery, and 10 years to
life in prison for the firearm offense.
She is scheduled to be sentenced in October.
According to the indictment, Blanco conspired with co-defendant Giovanny
Marte to rob the bank and provided critical information that allowed him
and his co-conspirators to carry out the robbery successfully.
On October 29, 2013, at about 3:17 p.m., Marte and three others entered
the bank. Marte fire two shots from a gun but did not hit anyone.
He accessed the vault and made off with $303,500 in a laundry bag.