An Easton man currently serving a state prison sentence for a 2024 bank robbery in Schuylkill County is now facing additional charges in a separate Berks County holdup that occurred the same month.
Joshua C. Haney, 41, was charged Feb. 5 by the Bally Police Department in connection with a May 23, 2024 robbery at Truist Bank, located at 706 Main St. in Bally, according to court records.
Haney has not yet been arraigned on the new charges. Online records show he is currently incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution Smithfield.
Police allege Haney entered the Bally bank wearing a medical mask, flannel shirt and baseball-style cap and handed a note to a teller demanding money.
Authorities noted that a day earlier, a man dressed in similar clothing and wearing a medical mask used a note during a robbery at First Commonwealth Federal Credit Union in Lopatcong Township, New Jersey, near Phillipsburg across the Delaware River from Easton, where Haney lived.
About a week after the Bally incident, investigators with the Pennsylvania State Police, Troop L in Reading, said Haney robbed First National Bank in McAdoo, Schuylkill County.
Haney pleaded guilty in August in Schuylkill County Court to robbery of a financial institution for the McAdoo case and was sentenced to 15 months to five years in state prison.
State police have said they linked Haney to three robberies in total, though as of this week, court records do not show charges filed against him in connection with the New Jersey robbery.
This is not Haney’s first bank robbery conviction. In 2015, he pleaded guilty in Northampton County Court to robbing a bank in Easton and was sentenced to two to four years in prison.
