Boston Man Pleads Guilty To Third Federal Bank Robbery

BOSTON — A man who spent years in prison for robbing a bank in 2009 pleaded guilty to an April 2020 Boston Santander Bank branch robbery in Boston Federal Court.

Dennis C. Taylor, 49, of Boston, pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery Friday morning. Taylor had been convicted of federal bank robbery in 2004 and again in 2010. In 2010, Taylor was sentenced to 10 years in prison and three years of supervised release for the December 2009 robberies of a Rockland Trust bank and a TD Bank in Yarmouth.

On April 29, 2020, Taylor entered a Santander Bank branch on Massachusetts Ave. in Boston in a hooded jacket, facemask, and blue latex gloves while demanding money from a teller, U.S. Attorney Racheal Rollins said.

The teller handed Taylor cash from the drawer with a red dye pack hidden inside and Taylor shoved the cash into a plastic bag before leaving the bank. According to Rollins, surveillance cameras on Massachusetts Avenue caught Taylor running towards a local parking garage as the red dye pack exploded "into a plume of red smoke."

When police searched the parking garage, they found the plastic bag containing red dye-stained money and a pair of blue latex gloves. A later investigation matched Taylor's fingerprints to those inside the gloves.

Taylor was arrested and charged by criminal complaint on Nov. 4, 2020, and was indicted by a federal grand jury on Nov. 12, 2020.

The charge of bank robbery provides for a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a fine of up to $250,000. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

U.S. District Court Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV scheduled Taylor's sentencing for June 15, 2022.