An Edgewood man was sentenced to 77 years in prison for a series of robberies police and prosecutors believe he orchestrated, including the home invasion robbery of a former Havre de Grace business owner.
Nikolaos Mamalis, 55, of Edgewood, was convicted in Baltimore Federal District Court Feb. 3 of conspiring to commit a number of armed commercial robberies and home robberies of people he had previous business dealings with. He was sentenced Friday to serve 77 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy, three counts of commercial robbery, and three firearms charges.
Along with a number of co-conspirators, Mamalis helped plan and participated in several robberies.
Codefendants Daniel Chase, 65, of Browns Mill, N.J., George Laloudakis, 49, of Baltimore, Antowan Bell, 25, of Rosedale, and Evangelos Tsoukatos, 48, of Glen Burnie, previously pleaded guilty for their participation in the robberies and have been sentenced.
Chase was sentenced to 141 months in prison and Bell was sentenced to 130 months in prison, both were ordered to pay restitution of $140,000. Laloudakis was sentenced to 117 months and ordered to pay $23,000 restitution. Tsoukatos was sentenced to 33 months and ordered to pay $140,000 restitution, according to a release from the department of justice.
Mamalis, Chase and Laloudakis planned to rob the owner of Citizens Pharmacy Services in the 400 block of Market Street in Havre de Grace, according to court documents.
The men believed the former owner kept business profits in his Pikesville home.
On Sept. 2, 2009, Chase and Laloudakis drove to the security gate of the neighborhood where the owner lived and Chase pretended to be a police investigator to get inside the home.
Chase pulled a gun, pointed it at the owner and his wife, and ordered them to the floor. Laloudakis, who was wearing a ski mask, took the owner's wife at gunpoint to a closet to open the safe. The men stole jewelry and cash.
The same group was found guilty for two other robberies involving people Mamalis knew, including that of Nicholas Frank, owner of Precision Vending in Baltimore.
In July 2009, the men held Frank at gunpoint, bound him with zip ties and duct tape and stole more than $11,000. Frank suffered a stroke by the time officers found him and died in the hospital within two weeks. An autopsy indicted the cause of death was related to the stress of the robbery.
A third and final robbery took place in late September 2009 when the group forced their way into the home of the man who owned a restaurant on North Point Boulevard in Baltimore.