A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday to bank robbery charges after he reportedly robbed banks in Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Vermont from 2021 to 2022.
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According to court records, the FBI investigated a series of bank robberies across New England that took place from September 2021 through August 2022. They believed the robberies were all committed by the same individual.
During the investigation, law enforcement identified Taylor Dziczek, 43, formerly of Chicopee, Massachusetts, as the robber who stole from Peoples United Bank, located at 117 East Street in Plainville, Connecticut, in May 2022.
On that occasion, Dziczek reportedly approached the teller with a note claiming that he was armed and demanded cash.
When the teller claimed that she had no more money to give him, he pulled out what appeared to be a firearm.
Before fleeing the scene, he removed paper money wrappers from the cash he received and left them on the ground.
Months later, as FBI agents were monitoring Dziczek at the MGM Casino in Springfield, Massachusetts, they saw him using a straw to drink from a Monster Energy can.
Agents retrieved the straw, and a lab analysis of the DNA on the straw matched the DNA found on the paper money wrappers.
He was taken into custody in December, 2022.
He admitted to the Plainville robbery and the robberies at a Webster Bank branch in Somers, Connecticut, on October 22, 2021; a Key Bank branch in East Windsor, Connecticut, on January 6, 2022; a TD Bank branch in Nashua, New Hampshire, on June 3, 2022; and a Liberty Bank branch in Meriden, Connecticut, on August 17, 2022.
Dziczek brandished what appeared to be a firearm during the robbery in Nashua, NH.
Notably, he did not admit to any robberies in Vermont, for which he was also accused.
He has remained detained since his arrest and pleaded guilty to three counts of bank robbery.
He faces a maximum 60-year prison sentence and has agreed to pay $82,567 in restitution.
His sentencing hearing is set for February 20, 2026.
The FBI was assisted by numerous state and local law enforcement agencies in its investigation.
