Man Robs Boston Bank At Gunpoint, Arrested: Boston Police

BOSTON, MA — Thursday evening a man walked into the TD Bank on Winter Street, passed a note to the teller and told the folks it was a robbery. He then motioned toward his coat pocket alluding to a gun and threatened to shoot the teller if she didn't give him money.

She gave him money, according to police, though how much is unclear, and he ran off before police arrived just before 6 p.m.

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With description of the suspect in hand, police said they kept an eye out until they were called to the corner of Washington and School streets to help Transit Police officers with a man that fit the earlier robber suspect's description.

Shortly after 11 p.m., police officers arrested Kenneth M. Chase, 49, of Hyannis and charged him with Armed Bank Robbery. Chase was arraigned in Boston Municipal Court, where although prosecutors asked he be held on $10,000 bail, and that that he stay away from the bank and get a GPS monitoring device, the bail was lower, Suffolk District Attorney Conley’s office said.

Judge Thomas Horgan set bail at $2,000 and ordered him to keep away from the bank, a spokeswoman for Conley said.

Chase’s next hearing is slated for May 14.

According to police public data there was at least one other bank robbery this month in Boston. On April 2, there was a robbery at a bank at 75 State St.

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