Eric Ciciola is serving a 42-month sentence he received in 2020 for armed robbery, assault and breaking and entering.
A 36-year-old man serving a 42-month sentence for a long list of crimes is heading back to a federal penitentiary following his arrest as a suspect in a recent bank robbery in St-Léonard.
Eric Ciciola was a resident of a halfway house on Ogilvy Ave. when he was arrested by the Montreal police in St-Léonard on Tuesday. In a release, the police said a stolen car was searched following his arrest and officers found a firearm, ammunition and “other elements of evidence.”
He appeared before a judge at the Montreal courthouse on Tuesday where he was charged with armed robbery, assault, car theft and six other charges. His case returns to court on Wednesday.
“On Sept. 28, 2024 at around 3:18 p.m., a suspect entered at a bank located on Viau Blvd. in the borough of St-Léonard. Shortly after while brandishing a gun, he ordered an employee to hand over cash. The suspect then fled in a vehicle that had been stolen two days earlier following an altercation that occurred in a warehouse in the Anjou district,” the Montreal police said in the release.
They also said Ciciola had been at the halfway house in Montreal since August and that he will be transferred to a penitentiary to serve the remainder of his sentence.
He is serving a 42-month he received at the Montreal courthouse on Nov. 11, 2020 after he pleaded guilty to armed robbery, assault and seven counts of breaking and entering.