2 sentenced for armed robbery BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer MATAWAN- Twomen convicted of the armed robbery of the Sun National Bank on Main Street and two other banks were recently sentenced to federal prison. According to U.S.Attorney Christopher Christie, on Feb. 26, Kreig "Chub" Prosper, 25, of Woodbridge, was sentenced to 66 years and two months in prison, and Shenez "Randy" Lawrence, 33, of Perth Amboy, was sentenced to 68 years and eight months in prison. District Court Judge Stanley R. Chesler also ordered Prosper and Lawrence to pay restitution of $304,087, representing the money stolen in the three bank robberies. The men were returned to federal custody, where they have been since their arrests in December 2005. After a trial in November 2007, Prosper and Lawrence were convicted for the armed robberies in which they used verbal threats and intimidation to hold bank tellers at gunpoint as they stole money from the banks' vaults. According to a press release from the FBI, the two were convicted of a series of armed bank robberies that occurred during 2005 in central New Jersey, including Sun National Bank branches onMain Street in Matawan and Laurel Avenue in Holmdel. The pair walked away with more than $239,000 from the Matawan bank on Jan. 15, 2005; $37,000 from the bank in Holmdel on Aug. 9, 2005; and $278,000 from a Sovereign Bank in Woodbridge on Dec. 9, 2005. For the three gun counts, Prosper and Lawrence both received a mandatory sentence of 57 years in prison. According to the press release, in imposing the sentence, Chesler termed the crimes "extraordinarily serious" due to the manner in which the defendants "terrorized customers and employees of three banks." Chesler also characterized the robberies as "cold," "calculated" and "well planned," and noted "it was only by the grace of God that somebody was not hurt or killed."