BOSTON — A New Hampshire man was sentenced Thursday, June 4, 2026, in federal court in Boston to more than four years in prison for robbing five banks across northern Massachusetts.
Reinaldo Ortiz, 47, of Manchester, New Hampshire, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani to 57 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, with six months to be served in home confinement, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.
Ortiz pleaded guilty in November 2025 to five counts of bank robbery. He was arrested and charged by criminal complaint in January 2023 and later indicted by a federal grand jury in February 2023.
Federal prosecutors say Ortiz drove from New Hampshire to Massachusetts between March 9 and March 24, 2022, and robbed a string of banks in Fitchburg, Lowell, Chelmsford, Wilmington, and Lexington, obtaining a total of approximately $21,709.
Ortiz allegedly entered each bank wearing a mask and demanded cash from the teller’s drawer. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, when the tellers complied, Ortiz would flee the scene of the robbery with several thousand dollars in cash.
Investigators later found Ortiz’s fingerprints on a glove discarded outside one of the banks, and determined that his cellphone movement was consistent with the robbery route.
United States Attorney Leah B. Foley and Ted E. Docks, special agent in charge of the FBI Boston Division, announced the sentence Thursday.
The Manchester, New Hampshire, Police Department assisted with the investigation.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Benjamin A. Tolkoff and Jessica L. Soto of the Criminal Division prosecuted the case.
