News Release
U.S. Department of Justice
United States Attorney
District of Rhode Island
March 7, 2008
Career offender is sentenced to 156 months for Pawtucket bank robbery
A federal judge today sentenced Stephen Davidow to 156 months in prison for a bank robbery in Pawtucket in December 2006. Davidow, 46, of Cottage Street, Pawtucket, has been arrested more than two dozen times, and was sentenced as a career offender.
United States Attorney Robert Clark Corrente announced the sentence, which U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith imposed in U.S. District Court, Providence.
Last May, Davidow pleaded guilty to bank robbery. At the plea hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Zechariah Chafee said the government could prove that, on December 28, 2006, Davidow entered the Webster Bank on Newport Avenue and handed a teller a threatening note claiming he had a gun. The teller gave him $2,400, including $100 in bait money.
After receiving information linking Davidow to the robbery, and after a teller identified him from a photo array, State Police detectives arrested Davidow on January 4, 2007.
Davidow’s prior convictions include robbery, felonious entry, larceny, and passing fraudulent checks. Because he had two or more violent felony convictions, he is considered a career offender under federal sentencing law.
Contact: 401-709-5032 Thomas.connell@usdoj.gov