A man was arrested Wednesday following a standoff at a Meriden hotel after he was named a person of interest in a bank robbery in Middletown.
Officers responded to Liberty Bank at 460 South Main St. in Middletown around 9:19 a.m. on Saturday for a report of a robbery, according to the Middletown Police Department.
Witnesses alleged that a man walked into the bank and “implied that he had a weapon,” police said. “Employees complied with the suspect’s demands for money and he left with an undetermined amount of cash.”
Following an initial investigation, detectives from the Major Investigations Unit developed a suspect identified as 61-year-old Bruce Vaughan, according to police.
Vaughan was located at a hotel in Meriden around 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning. Officers from the Middletown and Meriden Police Departments negotiated with Vaughan until 8 a.m., when he surrendered, police said.
Vaughan was taken into custody and charged with first-degree robbery, third-degree larceny and second-degree threatening. He was also charged with two counts of violation of probation and held on a total of $225,000 in bonds pending Thursday’s arraignment in Middlesex Superior Court, court records show.
According to police, Vaughan has two prior convictions for second-degree robbery and was on probation at the time of the incident.