A Boston man has pleaded guilty to robbing a Santander Bank branch, his third federal robbery charge.

Dennis C. Taylor, 49, pleaded guilty in Boston federal court on Friday to one count of bank robbery. Taylor was charged by criminal complaint and subsequently indicted by a federal grand jury in November 2020, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney’s office.

According to the statement, an individual, later determined to be Taylor, entered a Santander Bank branch on Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, where he approached a teller and demanded money. He was dressed in a dark hooded jacket, blue latex gloves and a facemask.

The teller handed Taylor cash from her drawer, which he placed in a white plastic bag before leaving the bank, according to the statement. A red dye pack was included with the cash.

Surveillance cameras on Massachusetts Avenue captured video of Taylor running toward a local parking garage as the dye pack exploded into red smoke, according to the statement. During a search of the parking garage, law enforcement recovered a white plastic bag containing red dye-stained money and a pair of blue latex gloves, the statement said, and the gloves were found to match Taylor’s DNA profile.

Taylor was previously convicted of federal bank robbery in 2004 and again in 2010, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. Taylor was sentenced in 2010 to 10 years in prison and three years of supervised release for the December 2009 robberies of a Rockland Trust bank and a TD Bank in Yarmouth.

Taylor’s sentencing for the Santander robbery is scheduled June 15.

Boston Man Pleads Guilty to Third Robbery Charge

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