An Easton man who is serving a state prison sentence for robbing a bank in Schuylkill County in May 2024 has been charged with robbing a bank in eastern Berks County the same month.
The latest charges against Joshua C. Haney, 41, were filed by Bally Police Department on Feb. 5, according to online court records.
Haney hasn’t been arraigned yet on those charges. Online records indicate he’s an inmate of the State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, Huntington County.
On May 23, 2024, Bally police said, Haney, wearing a medical mask, flannel shirt and baseball-style hat, robbed Truist Bank 706 Main St., by passing a note to a teller.
A day earlier, authorities said a man wearing identical clothing and a medical mask showed a note during a robbery of First Commonwealth Federal Credit Union in Lapatcong Township, N.J., just outside of Phillipsburg, which is on the opposite side of the Delaware River from Easton where Haney lived.
A week after the Bally holdup, Pennsylvania State Police investigators with Reading-based Troop L said Haney robbed First National Bank in McAdoo, a borough in northern Schuylkill County.
He pleaded guilty in August in Schuylkill County Court to robbery of a financial institution and was sentenced to 15 months to five years in state prison.
State police said they linked Haney to the three bank robberies, although there is no record, as of this week, of Haney being charged in the New Jersey holdup.
Haney served a state prison sentence for bank robbery a decade ago. He pleaded guilty in Northampton County Court in 2015 to robbing a bank in Easton and was sentenced to two to four years in prison.