The Stamford man charged in the October 2020 gunpoint robbery of a bank on Main Street in New Canaan on Monday pleaded guilty to bank robbery in federal court. According to a press release issued this week by the U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut, Francesco Pensiero on Oct. 28, 2020 and an associate […]
The U.S. attorney's office said Francesco Pensiero, a 51-year-old Stamford man, plead guilty to robbing banks in New Canaan, Fairfield and Stratford in 2020.
“Pensiero displayed a handgun, provided the teller with a note demanding money, verbally threatened to kill the teller and other employees, and ordered the bank employees to lie on the floor.,” according to federal authorities.