Historical figure maybe, maybe not

Russell D. Mace, 55, of Pumpkin Hill Road, has a criminal record in Connecticut dating to 1982. He served time in federal prison after being convicted of bank robbery in 1989, according to an arrest warrant made public after Mace appeared in court Monday morning.

Both Mace and his wife, Erin Mace, 35, were arraigned in state Superior Court in Bantam and remain jailed on bond. She has not been charged in the robbery but is accused, along with her husband, of a purse-snatching outside a New Milford supermarket in November.

Police said they quickly honed in on Mace after viewing surveillance film of the holdup at a Union Savings Bank branch because of previous dealings with him and because what police said is the getaway car, a white Toyota with a missing hubcap and broken side mirror, had been involved in a traffic accident they investigated a few days earlier.

At least one supervisor inside the East Street bank anticipated trouble because a teller and a customer said they had seen a man "pooping" in the parking lot "and not being discreet" minutes before the 3:35 p.m. robbery, according to police.

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