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		</div><h2><span style="color:#300606;"><strong><em>&#8216;Doing it in the name of love&#8217;</em></strong></span></h2>
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<h3 id="ext-gen143"><span style="color:#300606;">When Aaron Stein discovered that $9,000 he’d invested to cover his approaching honeymoon was gone he became desperate for funds</span></h3>
<h3><span style="color:#300606;"><strong>Decided to rob bank in Pittsburghto pay for his upcoming wedding, home repairs and child support </strong></span></h3>
<h3><span style="color:#300606;"><strong>Stein, 36, </strong><strong> made a fake bomb out of duct tape, phone wires and a vibrator, donned a mask then hit the bank<br />
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<h3><span style="color:#300606;"><strong>Arrested shortly after making off with an undisclosed sum and charged with robbery, aggravated assault, making bomb threats, making a fake bomb plus four counts of reckless endangerment.<br />
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<h3><span style="color:#300606;"><strong>He has been sentenced 18 to 36 months in prison </strong></span></h3>
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<p class="NormalParagraphStyle">Aaron Stein was under a lot of stress when crafted a fake bomb from phone wires, duct tape and a vibrator, donned an Iron Man mask and robbed a Crafton PNC Bank June 15, he told a judge Tuesday.<br />
Pressured by a looming wedding day, ongoing child support payments and recent home repairs, Stein, 36, of Elliott secretly invested the last of his family&#8217;s savings into risky foreign currencies to make quick money and cover the costs of his pending honeymoon.<br />
So when the investment evaporated, it was more than just the immediate loss that drove him to criminality Stein told Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Anthony Mariani at his sentencing hearing.</p>
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<h5><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-27678" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/aaron_stein_connie_capiotis6.jpg" alt="Aaron_Stein_Connie_Capiotis6" width="620" height="345" /></strong><strong>A western Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to robbing a bank with a fake bomb made out of phone wires, duct tape and a sex to that Aaron Stein pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges including robbery, aggravated assault and making bomb threats in the June crime.</strong></h5>
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<p class="NormalParagraphStyle">“My wife was not aware I&#8217;d taken the remains of our savings and put it into a risky investment, or that the savings were so depleted,” Stein told Mariani. “Because I&#8217;d been dishonest, I feared that final truth would be what destroyed my family.”<br />
Mariani sentenced him to 18 to 36 months in state prison, followed by three years of probation.<br />
Stein, defense attorney Bruce Carsia and Stein&#8217;s family requested that Stein be sentenced to house arrest instead of prison. Mariani denied the request.<br />
“The whole reason your client did what he did was to scare people into giving him money. This was sane, calculated decision-making,” Mariani told Carsia. “For me to tell the community that&#8217;s a house-arrest case&#8230; it can&#8217;t be that simple.”</p>
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<em><strong>Aaron Stein and Connie Capiotis</strong></em></h6>
<p class="NormalParagraphStyle">When police found Stein&#8217;s car pulled over on Campbell&#8217;s Run Road in nearby Robinson, he surrendered and told them his bomb was a fake, but Crafton Police Chief Mark Sumpter called in the Allegheny County bomb squad to detonate it as a precaution. Portions of Campbell&#8217;s Run Road, Interstate 79 and Interstate 376 were closed for about three hours.<br />
Stein was released on bond 18 days after his arrest and married shortly afterward. Stein pleaded guilty to robbery, aggravated assault, making bomb threats, making a fake bomb and four counts of reckless endangerment.<br />
A staffer with Jail Related Services testified that Stein was undergoing psychological treatment while under court supervision and was very cooperative. Stein&#8217;s wife, shaking with emotion, pleaded with Mariani to let him continue on house arrest so he could go back to work and back to seeing his son.<br />
“I had the option to walk away from Aaron because of his crime. Most people expected me to,” said Constance Capiotis, Stein&#8217;s wife and business partner. “In spite of everything I&#8217;ve lost, I&#8217;ve come to conclude that my family is worth fighting for and Aaron is worth standing by.”</p>
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Aaron Stein jailed three years for robbing bank with a VIBRATOR in order to pay for his upcoming wedding and child support
