Police: GPS Device Leads to Bank Robber's Arrest in Selden

A Selden man was arrested Monday afternoon and charged with robbing a bank less than a half mile from his home earlier in the day, police said.

Kyle Konecny, 25, is charged with second degree robbery after police say he robbed the Bank of America located at 994 Middle Country Road.

Police said Konecny entered the bank at about 10 a.m., approached a teller and displayed what appeared to be a handgun. Konecny demanded cash and a teller complied with the demand before the robber fled on foot, police said.

During the initial investigation, Sixth Precinct police officers responded to the area of Elmwood Avenue in Selden, where a GPS device from the bank was being tracked, police said.

A neighborhood canvass led Pattern Crime Unit detectives to Konecny’s Elmwood Avenue home, where he was interviewed and arrested, police said.

Konecny will be held overnight at the Seventh Precinct and is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on Tuesday.

Detectives are asking anyone with information on the robbery to call anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS.

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