Coffin
Rollins
TOWN OF SOUTHEAST – Two fugitives wanted for bank robbery in Connecticut were captured in the Putnam County Town of Southeast on Tuesday. The pair was apprehended after they were found sleeping in a stolen car parked near a reservoir.
Vance Coffin and Vincent Rollins, both 50, with last known addresses in Norwich, Connecticut, are facing local stolen property charges in addition to the Connecticut bank robbery charges. The men were wanted for an alleged September 23 bank robbery in Canterbury, Connecticut and police in the Nutmeg State notified the Putnam Sheriff’s Office that they were believed in the Brewster area.
About a dozen sheriff’s investigators and plainclothes deputies scoured the Brewster and Southeast areas at about 12:45 p.m. on Tuesday, the two men were found asleep in a 2010 Toyota Corolla parked on the side of Old Milltown Road in Southeast near the East Branch Reservoir.
The car had been stolen from Colchester, Connecticut around October 17 and had a North Carolina license plate reported stolen around October 21.
Coffin and Rollins were both charged with criminal possession of stolen property for the car and the plate. They are being held pending extradition back to Connecticut to face the robbery charges.
