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Alleged bank robber arrested in getaway vehicle -- Red Line car at Harvard Station
May 7, 2010 03:44 PM
Police take a suspected bank robber into custody inside the Harvard Square Red Line station this morning. (Aaron Rausche / For The Boston Globe)
By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff
A man who allegedly robbed a Harvard Square bank was arrested this morning as he sat in his getaway vehicle -- a Red Line car where he was found with red dye on his hands and every set of eyes on the car staring in his direction, Cambridge Police said.
Police said the man wearing a hooded sweatshirt walked into the Citizens Bank branch at 6 John F. Kennedy Street and passed a note to a teller, demanding cash. The teller handed over a package of cash, and the man fled on foot towards the neighboring Harvard Square MBTA Red Line station.
As he started walking down the stairs, a dye pack in the cash exploded, drenching the cash and the man, police said. The man dropped the cash, but continued into the station where he boarded an inbound train.
Alerted by witnesses, Cambridge Police asked the MBTA to stop the train – and bring it back to the station, which it did.
"As we arrived, it had just pulled back into the station,'' said Superintendent Steve Williams. "The suspect is sitting there, and all the witnesses on the train are looking at him. We go over to him. He's got red dye all over his shirt and his hands.''
Williams said police then arrested the man. "He is a guest of ours,'' said Williams.
The man was identified as Robert J. Carney, 34, of School Street in Everett. He is currently being held by the Cambridge Police pending a bail hearing.
If he does not make bail this weekend, Carney is to be arraigned Monday in Cambridge District Court on charges of bank robbery.
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