Taylor Dziczek
Introduction
Taylor Dziczek, 44, formerly of Chicopee, Massachusetts, was sentenced on September 8, 2026, by U.S. District Judge Sarala V. Nagala in Hartford to 90 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release for a bank robbery spree that stretched across Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire in 2021 and 2022 . The sentencing announcement by United States Attorney David X. Sullivan detailed fourteen completed robberies and one attempted robbery of banks and credit unions between September 2021 and August 2022, and ordered Dziczek to pay restitution totaling $82,567 . He had pleaded guilty on September 26, 2025, to three counts of bank robbery, and has been detained since his arrest on December 1, 2022 .
Background Information
The robberies listed in court documents form a near-monthly sequence across two years: the Arrha Credit Union in West Springfield and the American Eagle Credit Union in Enfield in September 2021; People’s United Bank in Brattleboro, Vermont, and Webster Bank branches in East Windsor and Somers, Connecticut, in October 2021; the Workers Credit Union in Athol, Liberty Bank in Avon, and the Savings Bank of Walpole in Keene, New Hampshire, in November 2021; the Greenfield Cooperative Bank in Montague in December 2021; KeyBank in East Windsor and Franklin First Credit Union in Greenfield in January 2022; People’s United Bank in Plainville and TD Bank in Nashua in mid-2022; and Liberty Bank in Meriden on August 17, 2022, along with an attempted robbery at the Brattleboro People’s United Bank on October 21, 2021 .
His method was consistent. Dziczek typically turned off his cellphone and drove to each bank with his license plates removed, then entered wearing a hooded sweatshirt, a surgical mask, and a baseball cap, handing the teller a note demanding cash in large denominations and claiming to have a gun .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Convicted and sentenced.
The Plainville robbery of May 26, 2022, is the incident the release documents in the greatest detail. Dziczek approached the teller counter and passed a note stating, in the court record’s paraphrase, “I have a gun. Don’t call 911. Don’t set off any alarms.” When the teller said she had no more money, he pulled what appeared to be a black firearm from the front pocket of his sweatshirt and told her “Give me all the money,” “I have a gun,” and “Don’t be a hero” . Before fleeing he removed some of the paper money wrappers from the cash and discarded them at the bank — a habit that became the thread that unraveled the spree, because Plainville Police detectives collected the discarded wrappers as evidence .
The identification came through surveillance and DNA. On October 21, 2022, FBI special agents watched Dziczek at the MGM Casino in Springfield, Massachusetts, and retrieved an energy drink can with a black straw from which he was observed drinking; laboratory analysis connected DNA from the straw to DNA found on the discarded money wrappers from the Plainville robbery . He was arrested on December 1, 2022, and had been in custody ever since — a period of nearly four years between arrest and sentencing .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The release records no statement from Dziczek and no victim statements; the documented response is institutional. The investigation spanned the FBI’s New Haven, Boston, and Albany divisions, the Connecticut and Massachusetts State Police, and police departments in Athol, Avon, Brattleboro, Chicopee, East Windsor, Enfield, Greenfield, Keene, Meriden, Montague, Nashua, Plainville, Somers, and Springfield, with the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection’s Division of Scientific Services providing laboratory assistance . The consequences are the 90-month sentence, the three-year supervised release term, the $82,567 restitution order, and the felony bank robbery convictions on three counts . The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Daniel E. Cummings and Stephanie T. Levick, with Sullivan thanking the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Vermont for cross-border cooperation .
Current Status
Dziczek is serving the 90-month sentence imposed on September 8, 2026, and owes $82,567 in court-ordered restitution to the victims of the spree . He pleaded guilty only to three counts of bank robbery while the release ties him to the full fourteen-robbery sequence through the sentencing record, and no appeal or post-sentencing motion is reported in the announcement . Because he has been detained since December 2022, roughly half the imposed term had already been served in custody by the time of sentencing.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The sentencing closes out a two-year criminal career that spanned four states and ends with Dziczek, 44, headed to federal prison with a restitution debt and three bank robbery convictions on his record . The forensic trail he left — wrappers discarded at one bank, DNA preserved on an energy drink straw at a casino two hours away — is now the documented record of how the spree was solved, and the case stands as the kind of multi-state investigation that bank robbery sprees in New England now predictably draw . The tellers he confronted at gunpoint — including the Plainville employee told not to be a hero — were the people the sentence’s restitution and supervised release terms are calculated against .
Sources
- U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Connecticut, “Massachusetts Man Sentenced to More Than 7 Years in Federal Prison for New England Bank Robbery Spree”, September 8, 2026 — source