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Bank robber admits guilt
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
By NANCY H. GONTERngonter@repub.com
NORTHAMPTON - When Shaun Anderstrom's picture appeared in the newspaper after he had robbed a bank, his family and a former boss called police to identify him.
Yesterday, Anderstrom, 29, formerly of Worcester, pleaded guilty to robbing the Citizens Bank in the Stop & Shop supermarket on King Street on Feb. 9. He was sentenced to two years in the House of Correction and five years probation.
His lawyer, David Roundtree, asked Hampshire Superior Court Judge Judd J. Carhart to spare Anderstrom state prison time, saying he suffers from mental illness and had a psychiatric hospitalization less than two weeks before the robbery.
"He was self-medicating with alcohol. He's very contrite," Roundtree said.
Assistant District Attorney Michael A. Cahillane said that Anderstrom went to a teller and gave him a note saying, "Don't make a big deal. Just hand me the big bills in your drawer."
After receiving money, Anderstrom told the teller to give him all of his $20 bills and then left with $2,970. Police had surveillance video and photographs published, and several people came forward and identified him, Cahillane said.
Police could not locate him at addresses for him in Worcester and Connecticut, but soon afterward, he turned himself in to police in Douglas, Wyo., saying he had been off his medication and had robbed a bank, Cahillane said.
Anderstrom told police here that he spent the money on "food, booze and weed," he said.
Roundtree said that Anderstrom has had eight psychiatric admissions. He is a lifelong area resident, he said.
"This was a cry for help. This was not a serious effort to get away with something," said Roundtree, noting that it was family and a bar owner whom Anderstrom worked for who identified his picture in the paper
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