HOLLYWOOD — Detectives on Tuesday arrested a suspect in the robbery of a branch of the Jefferson Bank a day earlier.
Employees of the bank at 2434 Hollywood Blvd. said a man later identified as Sean Maroney, 28, entered the branch at 12:20 p.m. on Monday and handed a teller a note demanding cash. The teller complied. Maroney then fled in a waiting taxicab, police said.
Detectives tracked the cab to Maroney’s neighborhood in the 2000 block of Van Buren Street. He had some of the stolen money on him when arrested, and he was booked on one count of armed robbery.
Police spokesman Ed Cunningham said Maroney was on parole for 11 armed robbery convictions in Massachusetts, where he was known as the “Hemingway Bandit” because of the long, eloquent notes he wrote in those robberies.
Monday’s note, Cunningham said, was more succinct: “This is a robbery. Give me all the money. I have a gun.”
