Hamden Police Joining Area Departments, FBI to Investigate Bank Robberies

The Connecticut Bankers Association is offering an $8,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of two suspects that may be connected to six bank robberies in the New Haven area this year.

Police detectives from East Haven, Hamden, New Haven and West Haven have joined forces with the FBI to investigate the robberies, which officials said played out similarly and the suspects in all of the cases fit a similar description.

The Sept. 10 robbery of the First Niagara Bank on Frontage Road in East Haven was the latest to involve the two suspects, according to the New Haven Register.

West Haven Police Sgt. David Tammaro said in a press release that the two people are also suspects in the robbery of the First Niagara branch on Fountain Street in New Haven on May 23 and June 27; the June 10 robbery of First Start Community Bank on Whalley Avenue in New Haven; the July 31 robbery of the First Niagara branch on Whitney Avenue in Hamden; and the Aug. 29 robbery of the Greater West Haven Federal Credit Union on Main Street in West Haven, according to the Register.

Anyone with any information about the suspects is asked to call West Haven police detectives at 203-937-3907. All information can be given confidentially.

Read the full story at the New Haven Register here.

(Photo: One of the suspects of the robbery of the First Niagara Bank on Whitney Avenue in Hamden on July 31)