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Office of the District Attorney P. David Soares Sentencing of David A. Hollenbeck For Burglary ALBANY, NY – Albany County District Attorney P. David Soares announced today that David A. Hollenbeck, 44, of 1939 7 th Avenue, Watervliet, NY was sentenced today to 15 years in State Prison and five years post release supervision by the Honorable Stephen W. Herrick. HOLLNBECK pled guilty on June 14, 2005 to charges that allege that between November 8 th, 2004 and April 15, 2005, he had committed a series of burglaries in which he broke into various different houses in Colonie and Guilderland to steal jewelry and other items of value including at least one case in which he stole items with a value in excess of $1000. HOLLENBECK was arrested in a McKown Road house on April 15, 2005 after he was spotted by a neighbor breaking a window and entering the dwelling. When the Guilderland Police arrived at the scene, HOLLENBECK was seen returning into the house so the officers called in a K-9 unit from SUNY Albany. With the assistance of the K-9 unit, they found HOLLENBECK hiding beneath a bed along with jewelry and a piggy bank. HOLLENBECK subsequently confessed to a series of other break-ins. District Attorney Soares praised the alertness of the citizen who placed the 911 call alerting the police. “The combination of an alert citizenry and rapidly responding officers from the Guilderland Police Force broke this case and saved who knows how many others from having their homes invaded,” he said. He also pointed out that this case is an excellent example of interagency cooperation. “This break-in occurred at a time when many detectives from the Guilderland Police Force were investigating the suicide of a middle aged woman on Zoar Avenue. “This was a case in which the Guilderland Police requested assistance from the SUNY K-9 unit along with an officer from the State Police. This is exactly the way the system is supposed to work,” he said. Back to Press Releases For further information contact: Richard Arthur
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