AARON RAUSCHE
Police took a suspect in a Harvard Square bank robbery into custody yesterday inside the Harvard Square Red Line station. Police indentified the man as Robert J. Carney of Everett (Aaron Rausche)
Robbery suspect is caught on Red Line
Police say man was using subway for his getaway
AARON RAUSCHE
Police took a suspect in a Harvard Square bank robbery into custody yesterday inside the Harvard Square Red Line station. Police indentified the man as Robert J. Carney of Everett (Aaron Rausche)
A man charged with robbing a Harvard Square bank was arrested yesterday morning as he sat in his getaway vehicle, a Red Line car, where he was found with red dye on his hands and all the passengers staring in his direction, Cambridge police said.
Police said a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt walked into the Citizens Bank branch at 6 John F. Kennedy Street at 11:30 a.m. and passed a note to a teller, demanding cash. The teller handed off a package of cash, and the man fled on foot toward the neighboring Harvard Square MBTA Red Line station, police said.
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 was identified as Robert J. Carney, 34, of Everett.
He was being held at the Cambridge police station pending a bail hearing.
Carney is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Cambridge District Court on charges of bank robbery.
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