Projo 7 to 7 News Blog

By Lisa Vernon-Sparks
Journal staff writer

EAST GREENWICH -- A suspect has been arrested in the robbery this afternoon of an Independence Bank on Route 2 just south of Division Road, authorities said today.

Two officers took Lincoln Craighead, 58, of Hull, Mass., into custody after another person pointed him out in the Panera Bread restaurant at 1000 Division St., according to Lt. James Poccia.

At about 2:30 p.m., a robber entered the branch at 1370 South County Trail and presented the teller a note demanding money, Poccia said. The teller turned over the undisclosed amount of cash, and the robber fled the bank on foot heading north. No one was hurt.

The employee followed the robber out of the bank and up the road into the sandwich shop.

Poccia said Craighead was arrested on a charge of second-degree robbery but had not yet been arraigned.

This is the second bank robbery on Route 2 in East Greenwich in the past two weeks.

A man wielding a machete robbed a BankRI at 1269 South Country Trail last month.

Matthew Joyce, 37,of Lincoln was arrested in the parking lot of Dave's Marketplace, a grocery store in the same shopping plaza on Division Street. Police made the arrest after an off-duty police officer followed the suspect to the nearby parking lot.

 Tags  bank robbery East Greenwich

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