Duo Nabbed For Robbing People's United Banks Inside CT Stop & Shop Supermarkets

Two Connecticut men have been arrested for allegedly carrying out multiple robberies this summer at People’s United Bank branches located in Stop & Shop supermarkets in the state.

A Hudson Valley duo has been nabbed for allegedly robbing multiple banks in CT.
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Kathy Reakes

09/01/2022 8:30 a.m.

Middlesex County residents, Gino Rizzo, age 28, and Jalania Pantano, age 27, both of Middletown, were arrested on Tuesday, Aug. 30 on an indictment charging them with bank robbery offenses, said Vanessa Roberts Avery, US Attorney for the District of Connecticut.

The indictment alleges that Rizzo robbed People’s United Bank branches located in Stop & Shop supermarkets in Glastonbury on Saturday, July 16, and in Newington on Monday, July 18 and that Rizzo and Pantano robbed a People’s United Bank branch located in a Stop & Shop in West Hartford on Wednesday, July 20.

The three-count indictment was returned by a grand jury in Bridgeport on Wednesday, Aug. 17.

Rizzo and Pantano appeared on Tuesday before US Magistrate in New Haven and were ordered detained.

The charge of bank robbery carries a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years.

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