UPDATE: FBI Arrests Bank Robber, Could Be Albertville Connection

UPDATE 3:05 p.m. – Mark Wetsch, the man arrested yesterday, is a former nursing director of Sholom Home West in St. Louis Park. He was convicted in 2005 of taking $1.4 million from the senior care facility through an invoice scheme that occurred between September 1997 and January 2005 .

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Minneapolis Field Office is investigating a man arrested in St. Peter, MN, in connection with a bank robbery in Brewster, MN, yesterday, and are evaluating whether he is the highly sought "Man in Black."

Mark Edward Wetsch, 49, Minneapolis, was arrested and detained by St. Peter Police after he was traveling in a vehicle which was suspected of being used in the robbery of the Rolling Hills Bank in Brewster around noon yesterday.

The FBI expects Wetsch to be charged in connection with the Brewster robbery in court today.

The so-called "Man in Black" is wanted in connection to multiple robberies throughout the Twin Cities area, including the Nov. 9 armed robbery of the , which also occurred around the lunch hour.

According to the FBI: the Saint Peter Police Department, the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, the Minneapolis Police Department,  the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office, the Prior Lake Police Department, the Shakopee Police Department, the Nobles County Sheriff’s Office, the Nicollet County Sheriff’s Office, the Saint Paul Police Department, the Bloomington Police Department, the Hopkins Police Department, the Eden Prairie Police Department, the Richfield Police Department, the Alexandria Police Department, the Orono Police Department, the Hastings Police Department, the Faribault Police Department, the Columbia Heights Police Department, the Wright County Sheriff’s Office, the Dakota County Sheriff’s Office, and the FBI are jointly working this investigation.