Alleged Paoli TD Bank Robber Waives Hearing

PAOLI–Alleged Kim Quoc Nguyen, 31, waived a preliminary hearing on Jan. 11 before Judge Chester Darlington in District Court #15-2-5.

Prosecutors added three new counts of robbery—inflicting threat of bodily injury, taking property from others by force and demanding money from a financial institution—to the other charges.

Nguyen is accused of handing a bank teller a demand note threatening to detonate a bomb unless he was given money. He allegedly made off with $2,760 and drove away from the bank in a gold Toyota Avalon.

He is charged with robbery, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property, simple assault, reckless endangerment and terroristic threats.

Bail remained at $750,000, but both counselors said they expected Delaware County, where Nguyen is on parole, to file a detainer.

Nguyen said he was a 1998 graduate of and said he lived with his parents in before moving to his current address in the AVE apartments off Lancaster Avenue in Willistown at his arraignment earlier this month.

According to court records, Nguyen faced forgery charges in 2002, and theft and identity theft charges in 2009.