4 Arrested In Bank Robbery

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by Melissa Bailey | Jul 31, 2008 5:16 pm

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A car chase following an East Haven bank robbery came to a sputtering stop in Fair Haven, where four suspects were nabbed.

The incident started at 10:17 a.m. at the People’s Bank inside the Stop & Shop store at 370 Hemingway Ave. in East Haven. Here’s what happened, according to Lieutenant Joseph Slane of the East Haven police:

A lone man walked into the bank. He went up to the teller and implied he had a gun. The teller turned over $1,600. The suspect was seen fleeing in a green minivan.

New Haven police spotted a van matching that description at Ferry and Exchange Streets in Fair Haven. They chased the van on and off of the highway.

The van got off at the Middletown Avenue exit. When it hit Middletown Avenue and Ferry Street, smoke started coming out of the engine. The getaway vehicle sputtered and stopped. Two of the occupants stayed in the van; two others split.

A gun was found near the car, but it turned out to be only a pellet gun.

Amtrak police stopped a couple trains because one of the fugitives was believed to be on the tracks. One suspect was later found hiding under a vehicle. He still had some money on him from looting the bank, according to Slane.

East Haven cops found all the four occupants and arrested them. A 41-year-old man was charged for carrying out the bank robbery; three others, two men and a woman, were arrested on conspiracy charges.

Cops recovered $1,500 of the missing $1,600.

Comments

posted by: toomanytaxes on August 1, 2008 6:48am

Perhaps if they studied penmanship, they could have thought to use a better get away vehicle.

posted by: -fairhavener- on August 3, 2008 8:03pm

Where is that $100?

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