Man Admits Robbing Bank In Meriden, Elsewhere: Feds

MERIDEN, CT — A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to robbing several banks, including one in Meriden, in Connecticut and New Hampshire, according to officials.

Taylor Dziczek, 43, pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in Hartford to bank robbery charges, U.S. Attorney for Connecticut David X. Sullivan announced.

According to court documents and statements made in court, the FBI and state and local law enforcement investigated a series of robberies of banks and credit unions that occurred between September 2021 and August 2022 in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, and New Hampshire, and which were committed by what appeared to be the same person.

“During the investigation, Dziczek was identified as a suspect who robbed the Peoples United Bank, located at 117 East Street in Plainville, Connecticut, on May 26, 2022,” officials wrote in a news release. “On that date, Dziczek entered the bank, approached the teller counter and gave the teller a note stating words to the effect of, ‘I have a gun. Don‘t call 911. Don‘t set off any alarms.’ When the teller stated she did not have any more money, Dziczek pulled what appeared to be a black firearm from the front pocket of his sweatshirt and made additional statements including ‘Give me all the money,’ ‘I have a gun,’ and ‘Don‘t be a hero.’”

Officials said Dziczek removed some of the paper money wrappers from the money he received from the teller and discarded them at the bank before he left the scene.

Plainville police detectives collected the discarded money wrappers as evidence, according to officials.

FBI special agents were watching Dziczek on Oct. 21, 2022 while he was in the MGM Casino in Springfield, Massachusetts, and retrieved a Red Bull energy drink can with a black straw that Dziczek was seen drinking, according to officials.

“Laboratory analysis connected DNA found on the black straw to DNA found on discarded money wrappers from the Plainville bank robbery,” officials wrote.

Dziczek was arrested on Dec. 1, 2022.

Dziczek pleaded guilty to three counts of bank robbery and admitted that he committed the Plainville bank robbery, as well as the robberies of a Webster Bank branch in Somers on Oct. 22, 2021; a Key Bank branch in East Windsor on Jan. 6, 2022; a TD Bank branch in Nashua, New Hampshire, on June 3, 2022, during which he pointed what appeared to be a black pistol at the tellers; and a Liberty Bank branch in Meriden, on Aug. 17, 2022.

Dziczek faces a maximum term of 60 years in prison when he is scheduled to be sentenced in February. He has agreed to pay $82,567 in restitution, according to officials.

Dziczek has been detained since his arrest.