Milford police have arrested a man known as the “Teardrop Bandit” in connection with a local bank robbery, police said.
Robert Chadronet, 37, of East Providence, Rhode Island, is suspected of robbing People’s United Bank, at 1636 Boston Post Road, as well as several other prior bank robberies, police said.
Chadronet, who is known as the “Teardrop Bandit,” walked into People’s United Bank around 4:15 p.m. on Aug. 18, handed the bank teller a note that said he had a weapon and wanted the money from the teller’s draw, police said.
After the teller handed Chadronet the cash, he fled the scene. No did not show a weapon and ran toward Woodruff Road, police said.
Police from Milford and East Providence, Rhode Island took Chadronet into custody at his house on Thursday in connection with the People’s United Bank robbery.
He is also suspected in a robbery at a Citizen’s bank in Wareham, Massachusetts on Sept. 9, according to a news release from Wareham police.
He was previously convicted of a bank robbery committed in Foxboro, Massachusetts in February 2005.
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A 2007 article in the Sun Chronicle, a newspaper in Massachusetts, says Chadronet had a tear-drop shaped tattoo under his left eye, but it might have been temporary, because he did not have one when he was arrested under suspicion of a hold up.
Chadronet was extradited back to Connecticut, where he is being held on $250,000 on the charges of second-degree robbery and third-degree larceny.
