FBI news release:
New Haven, CT – Special Agent in Charge Kimberly K. Mertz announces a reward of $50,000 is being offered by the FBI for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of a group of serial armed bank robbers. In addition to the reward offered by the FBI, the five victimized banks are each offering rewards of up to $10,000.
The FBI, Connecticut State Police, Fairfield, Orange, Cromwell, and Wallingford Police Departments, with the assistance of the Connecticut Bankers Reward Association, are investigating a group of armed bank robbers believed to be responsible for the following robberies:
1. Fairfield County Bank, Fairfield, CT, September 24, 2010
2. New Alliance Bank (now First Niagara Bank), Orange, CT, December 28, 2010
3. Naugatuck Savings Bank, Southbury, CT, April 20, 2011
4. Webster Bank, Cromwell, CT, October 7, 2011
5. Connex Credit Union, Wallingford, CT, April 19, 2012
Between three and five armed males wearing work clothes and dark masks have entered the victim banks and subdued the patrons and tellers at gunpoint. The robbers then ransack the teller drawers before escaping. The robbers have displayed handguns in each of the robberies.
A white Cadillac Deville, model year 2000 to 2002, was seen in the area of the Webster Bank robbery in Cromwell, and is considered of interest to the investigation.
Anyone with information regarding these bank robberies is being asked to call the FBI New Haven at 203.777.6311.
All calls will be kept in confidence.
*** With the layered clothing, gloves, masks, tote bags, weapons and stolen vehicle, etc. it’s obvious these boys have been around the block many times before in the past. The age group could be the type that likes to spend money just as quick as they get it on wine, women and song at a club. Short-time joint casers with a set time on the play clock, with same M/O history on their DOC jackets and just passing through, no? *** HERE WE GO! ***
The average citizen would be better served if they would protect us from the Robber Banksters rather than the bank robbers, no? I suspect more people have been robbed at the point of a pen than the point of a gun.
There’s a hole in downtown Hartford. The state police are looking into it.