Sunday, March 4, 2012

JUDGE DENIES BAIL FOR ROBBERY SUSPECT.(CAPITAL REGION)

A 54-year-old hard-drinking drifter with an arrest record spanning three decades was denied bail Thursday on charges that he robbed two downtown Albany banks.

"I don't see you as a decent risk for bail, as you might expect," U.S. Magistrate Judge Ralph W. Smith Jr. told Gene Melvin Jones.

Jones, who has lived at various Schenectady addresses and recently was a paying guest at the Schenectady City Mission, is charged with the May 3 robbery of Fleet Bank at 69 State …

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