A Chelsea man was arrested today on charges he held up Rockland Trust branches on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain and Truman Parkway in Hyde Park last month, as well as a bank in Weymouth.
Keywan Kelly, 29, was scheduled for his initial appearance in US District Court in Boston to answer to three counts of armed bank robbery, according to court records unsealed today.
According to an affidavit by a Massachusetts state trooper on the case, Kelly walked into the Rockland Trust branch at 515 Centre St. in Jamaica Plain around 1:40 p.m. on July 16, shoved his way between two people in line and handed a teller a note demanding $20,000 and threatening to kill everybody - except the teller was busy with an actual customer and did not initially read the note: