Man who robbed a Cambridge bank after skipping out on a sentence for robbing three banks sentenced to more than ten years

Kim Daley, 55, of Boston, will spend  ten years in federal prison for robbing a Cambridge bank in 2022 just five weeks after walking out of a halfway house on Huntington Avenue in Boston, where he had been serving the remainder of a sentence for robbing three banks in 2015.

In addition to a 125-month sentence for robbing the TD Bank branch on Alewife Brook Parkway on May 9, 2022, US District Court Judge Nathaniel Gorton sentenced Daley to a separate five-year term for his escape from the halfway house, the US Attorney's office reports. However, Gorton made the sentence concurrent with the bank-robbery sentence.

Daley didn't have any time to enjoy the $560 he made off with from the TD bank robbery - an off-duty Cambridge officer spotted him in a nearby Walgreens about 40 minutes later - on-duty officers  arrested him, still holding the money.

Daley pleaded guilty last April.

In addition to the 2015 bank robberies - which he committed only weeks after his release on a probation violation for a 2013 breaking-and-entering conviction - Daley has a criminal record that dates to when he was just 12, including 50 convictions as an adult, according to court filings.

In her sentencing recommendation - for 151 months - assistant US Attorney Suzanne Sullivan Jacobus chronicled Daley's adult record:

DALEY's criminal record includes convictions for a significant number of crimes, including some serious crimes, which include but not limited to the following: Operating to Endanger ( two separate cases resolved in 1988 resulting in 4 days imprisonment with balance suspended for 2 years); Assault and Battery with a Dangerous Weapon and Possession with Intent to Distribute Class D (marijuana) convictions (1988: 6 month suspended sentence but in 1990, found in violation of probation and sentenced to a 6 month committed term); Breaking and Entering Nighttime with Intent to Commit a Felony (count one) and Trespass (count two) (1989: guilty filed on count one and later found in violation of probation and received a 30 day committed sentence, and 30 day sentence suspended for 9 months on count one); Assault and Battery (1989: 60 day sentence suspended for 3 months and later found in violation of probation and sentenced to a 60 day sentenced); Larceny of Property Over $250 (1990: 90 day committed sentence); Breaking and Entering Daytime with Intent to Commit a Felony (1990: one year probation), Possession with Intent to Distribute Class B (1991: 9 month sentence suspended for 6 months and later found in violation of probation and committed); Attempt to Commit a Crime (Break & Enter) (1991: 18 month sentence with 60 days to serve and the balance suspended for 2 ½ years but in 1992 was found in violation of probation and received a one year committed sentence); Armed Robbery (1992: 6-10 year state prison sentence with 2 years to serve and the balance suspended and probation for 5 years, but in 1995, found in violation of probation and the balance of the 6-10 year sentence was imposed); Distribution Class D (marijuana) and Conspiracy to Violate Drug Law (1992: 1 year sentence suspended with probation for 3 years on distribution count and guilty filed on conspiracy count); Breaking and Entering Daytime with Intent to Commit Felony and Possession of Burglarious Tools (1992: 2 year committed sentence on both counts) Breaking and Entering Night and Possession with Intent to Distribute Class A (heroin)(1993: 3-5 year sentence on both counts); Larceny of Firearm (1996: Guilty filed); Breaking and Entering Building Daytime (3 counts) and two counts of Larceny in Building (1995: 5-7 year state prison sentence on Breaking and Entering counts and one Larceny count and Guilty filed on the second Larceny count); Distribution Class A (heroin)(2006: 5 years to 5 years one day committed sentence), Break and Enter Building Daytime with Intent to Commit Felony (1995: 6 years to 6 years and 1 day committed sentence); Break and Enter Day with Intent to Commit Felony (count one), Larceny Over $250 (count two), Resist Arrest (count five), Disorderly Conduct (count four), True Name Violation (count three), Trespass (count six) (2 years sentence with 6 months to serve and balance suspended for 3 years on counts one, two and five, 90 day committed sentence on count 4, and Guilty filed on counts three and six); Break and Enter Daytime with Intent to Commit Felony (count one), Larceny from Building (count three), Trespass (count two) (2004: 18 months imprisonment on counts one and three and 30 months imprisonment on count two); Break and Enter Daytime With Intent to Commit Felony (counts one through three), Larceny From Building (counts four and five), Trespass (count six) (2004: 18 months imprisonment on all but count six and 30 days committed on count six); and, Break and Enter Building for Felony (count one), Larceny Over $250 (count three) and Escape from Municipal Lockup (count two)(2012: 2 years committed on counts one and three and 2 ½ years committed from and after on count two).

In his sentencing recommendation, for 78 months, Daley's attorney, Brendan Kelley, argued it was unfair to punish Daley as a career criminal, because the conviction that pushed him into that status happened two decades ago and involved a mere tenth of a gram of heroin.

But also, he argued, Daley deserved some leniency because of some unfortunate bureaucratic and family twists of fate that kept him from avoiding the harsh streets of Boston and Cambridge where he had succumbed, time and again, to bad influences.

As part of his journey to release, Daley's father's widow in Texas had agreed to take him in to get him away from this area - and the Bureau of Prisons had agreed to let him transfer into a residential pre-release drug treatment program there.

But for reasons that are not immediately clear, Mr. Daley was never assigned to [the residential program]. And as he prepared for release, Ms. Douglas refused to let him stay with her because she had begun a relationship with a new boyfriend. With no other connection outside of Boston, and no other home to return to, he released to a bed at the Coolidge House without the necessary benefit of RDAP. Soon after his release from BOP in February 2022, he succumbed to relapse in his familiar surroundings of Boston. Not long afterwards, he walked away from Coolidge House and ultimately committed the bank robbery in this case via a note which did not contain a threat. Just 4'9" tall, his appearance was distinctive. Cambridge Police officers found Mr. Daley that afternoon within the hour and arrested him.

Kelley continued:

While in pretrial custody, Mr. Daley sought and received an evaluation for participation in a medication assisted treatment (MAT) program and now receives methadone. During his last sentencing, Mr. Daley expressed his sense of having no one supporting him. During this pretrial detention, he reached out and has now spent time reconnecting with his sister, slowly earning her trust. She now allows him telephone contact with his nephews where once she did not. As he did previously, he expresses his fervent desire to receive treatment while in the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) which when taken in combination with continued MAT participation and renewed pro-social support can enable successful reentry after service of this period of incarceration.