Suspect arrested in Prov. bank holdup

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) -- Police have made an arrest in an bank robbery from last Friday on Providence's East Side -- thanks to part of a fingerprint, and due partly to the fact that the robber was put off by a dye pack exploding in the cash.

Providence Police have charged Jean Rosario, 32, with one count of second degree robbery.

They believe he entered the Citizens Bank on Hope Street on Friday, Sept. 21, and gave a bank teller an envelope. Inside was a note: "Give me the money, nothing funny."

Having gotten the goods, he ran out. Moments later, he realized what he'd gotten, and threw the envelope to the ground as the dye pack exploded, running off.

On the envelope police found part of one of the robber's fingerprints. They got a warrant for Rosario's arrest on Wednesday, and after getting his last known address in Cranston from probation officers with the Department of Corrections, found Rosario on the street outside his home. He identified himself, and police took him into custody.

Inside Rosario's home, investigators found hats, caps, sunglasses, camoflage gloves, colored hair spray, and a package of fake mustaches.

The person who held up the Hope Street Citizens Bank had worn a do-rag with a baseball cap over it, as well as sunglasses.