PROVIDENCE – A Pawtucket man was ordered detained in federal
custody today, arraigned on a federal indictment charging him with robbing
banks this past summer in Providence and Pawtucket.
It is alleged in an indictment that Christopher S. Oladapo
28, robbed a Providence branch of Citizens Bank on July 27, 2019, and that he
robbed a Citizens Bank branch in Pawtucket on August 31, 2019.
According to information presented to the Court, it is
alleged that in each of the robberies Oladapo presented threatening notes to
bank tellers demanding cash. It is alleged that he made off with $3,268 from
the bank in Providence and that he made off with $2,031 from the bank in
Pawtucket.
Oladapo was arraigned today on two counts of bank robbery
before U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Lincoln D. Almond and ordered
detained, announced United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman, Special Agent in
Charge of the FBI Boston Division Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Providence Police
Chief Colonel Hugh T. Clements, Jr., and Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves.
An indictment is merely an accusation. A defendant is
presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys
Christine D. Lowell and Sandra R. Hebert.
The bank robberies were investigated by the Providence and
Pawtucket Police Departments, with the assistance of the FBI.
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