2 Arrested After Robbing East Providence Bank: Police

EAST PROVIDENCE, RI – Officers arrested two men in connection to Tuesday's bank robbery in East Providence, police said Friday.

Police said the robbery happened around 10:30 a.m. at the TD Bank at 440 Newport Ave.

Witnesses told police a man showed a note to the bank teller, which demanded cash. Police said the man did not have a weapon. The man made out with about $3,000 in cash, police said.

Detectives used security footage, interview witnesses and learned the man ran away on foot across Newport Avenue. Police gathered information about prior bank robberies in the area, and later Tuesday, found one of the vehicles thought to be involved in the series of robberies.

Police pulled over the car on Interstate 195 eastbound. Police said the car had two people in it involved in robberies in Pawtucket and Providence. The people were close associates of the men responsible for the East Providence robbery. Police identified the men responsible as Dashawn Diaz, 22, of Providence, and Terrence Lafauret, 21, of Providence.

On the same day, police said they conducted another motor vehicle stop and arrested one of the suspects responsible for the robbery, and police later arrested the other suspect.

"As a result of this joint investigation by the East Providence Police Dept., Providence Police Dept., Pawtucket Police Dept. and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, five bank robberies were solved; one in East Providence, three in Providence and one in Pawtucket," East Providence police said in a statement.

Diaz and Lafauret were both charged with second degree robbery and conspiracy.