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Bank robber at the Middlebury Webster Bank April 28. (Submitted photo)
Middlebury Police Chief Pat Deely said he learned on Friday, May 26, that a suspect in the April 28 bank robbery at the Webster Bank at 400 Middlebury Road in Middlebury had been arrested in Waterbury on an outstanding warrant on an unrelated charge. At the time of the robbery, the robber was described as a skinny white male in his early 20s, 5’10” to 6’, thin build wearing black and white sneakers, black sweat pants, black hoodie, dark sun glasses and a pink face mask. The suspect, a 25-year-old male, is 5′ 9″ and weighs 180 pounds.
On April 28, a robber walked into the branch bank and handed a teller a note demanding money. Once he had the money, he ran across Middlebury Road and down Steinmann Avenue, where it appears a getaway car was waiting for him. Connecticut State Police dogs tracked the robber to that location before losing his scent.
After hearing about the robbery, a school bus driver notified the police they thought they had seen the vehicle on Steinmann Avenue. Video from the school bus gave the police a description of the vehicle but did not make the license plate clear. That’s when the recently installed Rekor cameras again aided an investigation. They showed a vehicle matching the description of the one on Steinmann Avenue driving by Rekor cameras in Middlebury three times at 10 a.m. prior to the bank robbery. They also provided the license plate number.
Police located the car’s registered owner and found her boyfriend had outstanding warrants. Then the car disappeared off the cameras. On May 26, however, a Waterbury police officer on routine patrol spotted the vehicle and brought the suspect in on the outstanding warrant.
Deely said there is a lot of work yet to do on the bank robbery investigation, but he felt they had a very strong suspect.
Rekor cameras were installed at strategic locations in Middlebury in December 2022. They do much more than survey the scene. They collect the vehicle description and photo, plate number, its location, and the time it passes by and take a short video. That data is then fed into a computer to see if it matches any vehicles being sought by law enforcement. Matches are immediately fed to officers’ cell phones and to the chief.
UPDATED May 27 to add information on Rekor cameras.
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