MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — The Bouquet Bandit got a dozen... years in prison, that is.
An admitted bank robber who pretended he was delivering flowers but then demanded cash from two Chelsea banks was sentenced to up to 12 years in prison Wednesday.
Edward Pemberton, 55, pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery on July 28 in exchange for a prison sentence of a minimum of six years and maximum of 12.
He admitted to holding up two Chelsea banks — a Capital One on West 23rd Street and a Bank of Smithtown on Seventh Avenue, near West 18th Street — while carrying a flower bouquet last summer.
Pemberton was sentenced before Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Maxwell Wiley. He had a previous felony conviction for drug possession.