Connecticut men arrested in connection with Putnam bank robbery

PATTERSON – Three Connecticut men have been arrested on robbery charges stemming from the January 2 holdup of a bank in the Town of Patterson.

The men held up the Putnam County National Bank at Haviland Drive at about 9:40 a.m. in January.

Two of the men had entered the bank and handed a teller a note demanding money.

The teller gave them an undisclosed amount of cash before they fled the scene in a in a car driven by a third person.

During a four-month investigation by the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, police developed information that the suspects were from nearby Fairfield, CT. Police from Danbury, CT assisted with the Putnam County District Attorney’s Office.
Police located two of the men in Danbury.

Eugene Wells, 44, and Christopher Coffey, both of Newtown, where sent to New York where they were charged with robbery in the second degree.

A few days later, a third suspect, Mario Dellangelo, Jr., 46, of New Fairfield, was located. He is incarcerated in the Gates Correctional Facility in Niantic, CT, serving a jail sentence for violating probation on an unrelated charge. A second-degree robbery charge was lodged against him.

If convicted, the men could be sentenced to up to 15 years in state prison.