11/19/09 Duxbury: Local man living in CT arrested on armed robbery charges

A former Duxbury man, 26-year-old Jesse Lee Dinius was living in Stamford, CT when police say he was arrested moments before he tried to hold up a bank in the city.

Authorities believe Dinius robbed a bank in early October and in September.

The Stamford Advocate reports- Dinius who graduated from Duxbury High School was arrested Tuesday on felony attempted robbery charges.

The paper reports, a plainclothes officer stopped him in front of a bank just before closing.

Dinius allegedly had a fake handgun in his waistband and a handwritten note with a demand on it just minutes before the banks 4 p.m. closing.

Dinius was arraigned Wednesday morning at a state Superior Court in Stamford, CT.

WATD's Steven Dodrill made an attempt to contact Dinius' family on Temple Street. A women who answered the phone, his mother hasn't spoke to her son in a while. When we posed the question - Have you spoken to him? The women responded - Why Would I?

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