Suffolk police arrested a Farmingville teenager for robbing a bank in Ronkonkoma Monday afternoon.
Christopher Ruben
Christopher Ruben, 18, entered the TD Bank branch on Portion Road, gave a teller a note demanding cash and the teller gave Ruben cash from the drawer before he fled at 3:47 p.m., according to Major Case Investigations Unit detectives.
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Officers apprehended the suspect after he jumped a fence at a sump on Sachem School District property.
Ruben was charged with robbery. He will be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on Tuesday.
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Tags: Christopher Ruben, Farmingville, Ronkonkoma, TD Bank
Your Brothers actions wernt because of the friends he had they were self thought modavations wich he carried out and in the end he messed up big time. So dont go blameing other people for your brothers mistakes no one ever forced him to do anything this isnt the first time ive herd of this kid robbing places. Honestly mabe its your family Enableing his Actions if you guys mabe took better caution in his behavior you could have changed it. You thought that sending him to a Bunch of rehabs would help all your family did was show how much you want that kid gone he needed a Phyc ward not a rehab so keep defending your brother and blame everyone else or Open Your Eyes and see the truth He did this to him self and theres no one to blame. So Please You Grow up with something to say .
how dare anyone run their mouths about chris, especially those he considered his friends. and how dare you get up on here and say that you kept him around for amusement. what a piece of garbage you are, and it is you i feel bad for, because you’re the terrible person, and you should be tried as an accomplice. had chris had better friends, or friends that were better people, he wouldn’t be in this situation. he chose to be around you, and this is how you repay him? by convincing him to do terrible things that you’re not man enough to do? by manipulating him because he craves attention? grow up, everyone with something to say. i know he messed up and i know he alone did this, but stay away from him. leave your attacks to yourself. or man up, and let the world know who you are.
everyone has to realize that someone stable and in the right frame of mind would not do something like this, he is a young man acting out for recognition and attention, it is deeply saddening that it came out in such a desperate act. He does not need our criticism but our prayers that he will come out of these hard times to grow up and become a good person and avid member of society. There are people out there who need help, Chris seems to be one of them. I only hope that he can recognize what he did was wrong and learn from his mistakes. And we all need to realize that in a recession everyone struggles and I am sure we have all though about robbing a bank, at least I have lol. Chris was just desperate enough to go through with it- If Chris had friends to deter him from these thoughts and actions he would have not done it at all. My prayers are with his family who are most likely struggling with the harsh reality of their young son going to jail. Best of luck to all envolved.
I tried to help him so much. and im sick of hearing people say “he is so dumb”…yeah he did do something dumb but he was messed up he always really has been and the people he called friends didnt help the situation. Instead of laughing at him because he does stupid things how about you try helping him..maybe he wouldnt be in this situation. If he had more then one person (me) trying to help him then maybe he would have realized people do care for him and stopped. I cared about him.. I think besides his family i was the only person that really cared about him alot. I wish I could go to the past and talk him out of it. I wish I could just see him now and be there for him :(
btw ” it was not entirely his fault that he is where he is now because of drugs and the fools that pushed him ” uhmmm actually no one can make a person do something unless they wanted to.. PLUS the kid wasn’t even addicted to drugs… gets your facts straight… it is completely his fault and no one else’s… no one went in that bank except chris and no one held a gun to his head…. i hate people who comment things on sites like this and just spread bullshit… CHRIS FUCKED UP and now HES IN JAIL… end of story
Honestly, he did it to himself. Sure we egged him on to do stupid shit but the only reason he did the stupid shit he did was because he actually wanted to. We constantly warned him that hes going to end up in jail, pretty much every day and look where he is now.
who is yeeaa:D ??? its bothering me that i cant figure it out. ive asked most of the people i suspect.
We never loved him.
seriously. i deff know you but i have several guesses of who you could be
HA! oh how i have waited for this day! finally Farmingville has caught up with sexypants and has dragged him down to hell! Ah robbing a bank to payback drug debts!
I must distribute congrats to all those farmingvillans that helped ruin the man known as Christopher Ruben. You should all be proud your constant egging on of his stupidity and abuse has finally done him in. Good show villians, i laugh at how many times i said that the only reason he was kept around was for the amusement of watching him fall deeper and deeper into the hole that has consumed the town of Farmingville, now low and behold the mugshot of the infamous ruben
Ah i lament for the Ruben family, how hard it must be to know that it is your fuck up on the 6 o clock news and not someone elses. truely i feel sorrow for his parents and i can only hope that they realize that it was not entirely his fault that he is where he is now because of drugs and the fools that pushed him to do the stupidity that farmingville loved him for.
Sorry about your friend but kudos to you. You’re about the first person ever to post and say the person involved was due to get caught doing something. Everyone else seems to say “he was such a nice boy” or “he has such a nice family” or “the police are scum they’ve got the wrong guy”.
He might have come from a good family but guys who do this have to man up and pay the price eventually. At 18 he’s too foolish to do this. he just screwed himself up good as bank robery is a federal crime I believe.
One my good friends ;( he had it coming sadly