A 21-year-old man who robbed a man at an ATM then fled to Canada to avoid jail was sentenced to 11 years in prison, the New Haven Register reported Thursday.
Daniel Szleszynski and his friend Casey Hyman used a pellet gun to rob a man of $100 as the victim used a Bank of America ATM in Seymour on May 31, 2010.
Hyman was sentenced to 18 years in prison — suspended after he serves seven — for the ATM robbery and other crimes.
Szleszynski had pleaded guilty under a deal brokered with prosecutors — but fled to Canada before being sentenced.
In March, Seymour police were told he had been arrested by Canadian authorities. The charges there weren’t specified.
Seymour police told Superior Court prosecutors, who made arrangements to have Szleszynski flown back to the U.S.
Szleszynski arrived back in the U.S. in late June.
