For the second time in four days, Nathan Galli was sentenced to serve five years to life in prison for one of four armed robberies he has admitted committing.
Third District Judge Kenneth Rigtrup ordered that the sentence be served concurrently with the same sentence he received Friday before 3rd District Judge Pat Brian for another armed robbery.In addition to the prison sentence, Rigtrup ordered Galli to pay the maximum $10,000 fine plus an $8,500 surcharge. But defense attorney Walter Bugden pleaded with the judge to reduce the fine, arguing that "whipping this young kid for a pound of flesh" would do no good.
Rigtrup agreed to reduce the fine to $1,000 with an $850 surcharge.
Galli, charged with four counts of aggravated robbery, pleaded guilty to three of the counts and the fourth was dismissed. Prosecutors had offered to allow him to plead to lesser charges if he'd agree to testify against two of his cousins, who are charged with murder. But despite the advice of his family and attorney, Galli would not testify and pleaded guilty to three first-degree felonies.
After pleading guilty to robbing the Tool Shed, 405 Sixth Ave., on June 6, he was immediately sentenced to prison. Police say Galli was assisting his cousin, Adam Galli, as a backup in the robbery. Police said that moments after Adam Galli and another gunman robbed the business and fled, Nathan Galli stopped and offered to track down the bandits.
He returned minutes later and gave police a fake description of the getaway car, detective Ray Dalling testified.
Dalling became suspicious when Galli claimed to be a witness to the incident because he'd received information the day before that the four Galli cousins were casing a Smith's store and were planning to rob it. The Tool Shed is located next to a Smith's store.
Police say the foursome - dubbed the "preppy bandits" - teamed together to pull off a string of armed robberies and planned each robbery carefully by spending hours watching their robbery targets.
Galli will serve his sentence at the Tooele County Jail because of safety concerns stemming from the fact that his father is an administrator at the prison.