FROM: HOLLEY CARNRIGHT
DATE: APRIL 12, 2018
RE: PRESS RELEASE – PEOPLE V. RYAN O’CONNOR
On April 11th, 2018, Ryan O’Connor of Hannacroix, New York entered a guilty plea to Robbery in the Third Degree before the Honorable Donald A. Williams. O’Connor was indicted by an Ulster County Grand Jury earlier this year for the January 18, 2018 robbery of Key Bank on Wall Street in the City of Kingston. The incident was one of a series of bank robberies alleged to have been committed by O’Connor in Albany, Rensselaer and Ulster Counties over a several week period last Winter.
The Kingston Police Department handled the investigation and arrest of O’Connor, with assistance from the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office, Ulster County Sherriff’s Office and other local law enforcement agencies.
The case was prosecuted by Chief Assistant District Attorney Michael Kavanagh. The defendant was represented by the Public Defender’s Office.
O’Connor is scheduled to be sentenced by the Hon. Donald A. Williams on June 12, 2018.