NEW LONDON, Conn. – A woman who robbed a local bank and a credit union seven days later this fall was sentenced Tuesday to 55 months behind bars.
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Tonya Viens, 30, pleaded guilty to robbing the Dime Savings Bank Oct. 21, then the Core Plus CU branch a week later.
Viens and her ex-husband, Marwan Chankar , 33, made off with a combined $4,100 in the robberies. Police said Chankar drove Viens to and from each bank. In each robbery, police said Viens passed a note, threatening the use of a bomb.
Viens’ ex-husband, Chankar, faces five and half years in prison when he is sentenced in February.
