Sloanhoffer

BLOOMING GROVE – A New Windsor man is behind bars after he allegedly held up the Provident Bank branch at 815 Route 208 in Blooming Grove early Wednesday afternoon.

Nicholas Sloanhoffer, 20, of 65 Otterkill Road in New Windsor allegedly handed a teller a note and gestured as if he had a handgun.  He made off with a bag of cash.

As Orange County 911 was broadcasting a description of a 2004 Honda According, State Police Sgt. Bruce Furbeck of the Monroe barracks was responding to the robbery heading southbound on Route 208. In the area of Barnes Road, he saw the suspect drive past him heading northbound toward Washingtonville.

The sergeant made a u-turn and went after the Honda onto Mountain Lodge Park Road where he stopped the car and arrested Sloanhoffer on charges of first-degree robbery and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree.

Found in his car were a black toy pistol, clothing worn in the robbery, a note passed to the teller and a grocery bag with the $2,786 in stolen money.