Police are looking for a 35-year-old Norwich woman considered a person of interest in a Middletown bank robbery on Wednesday morning, and possibly in robberies of banks in Norwich and Westerly, R.I.
A woman robbed TD Banknorth on Washington Street in Middletown just before 11 a.m. on Wednesday, handed the teller a note, put a bag on the counter and said it held a bomb, police said.
She took the cash and ran. The bank was evacuated, secured and the surrounding area was cordoned off. The bomb squad was brought in, cops closed Route 66 and interviewed drivers.
Police investigated and found no bomb. After going through surveillance tape, police identified Heather Brown, 35, of Norwich, as a person of interest.
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Now they are looking into whether Brown could be connected to similar robberies in Norwich and Westerly.
In the Rhode Island robbery, a man and a woman held up a Washington Trust Bank, said they were armed with explosives, stole cash and fled in a cab, the Associated Press reports.
The unsuspecting taxi driver took them from the scene and police soon caught up with the driver and the male suspect in Stonington, Conn., the Associated Press reports. The woman was nowhere to be found.
In the Montville robbery, the woman handed a teller a note stating that a bomb was in the bag, the Norwich Bulletin reported.
The bank was evacuated and police closed down Route 32 in the event that there was a bomb in the bag, the newspaper reported.
After the Middletown robbery, the woman left in a blue van, possibly a Chevy, driven by a man and they went west on Washington Street, police.
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