Last modified: Saturday, June 24, 2006 12:34 AM EDT

Market bank hit by thief

MANSFIELD -- A man wearing a Massachusetts State Police baseball cap threatened a teller that he was armed while holding up the Citizens Bank at Stop & Shop on Route 106 Friday night.

No weapon was shown during the 6 p.m. robbery, police said.

The suspect approached a female teller and handed her a note indicating he had a handgun and instructing her to empty the cash drawer, police said.

The suspect is described as being a white male, in his late 30s or early 40s, with blond hair, mustache. He was about 5-foot, 6-inches to 5-foot, 8-inches tall with medium build, police said, and was wearing jeans, a blue Adidas sweatshirt, workboots, and a corduroy Massachusetts State Police patch cap at the time of the robbery, police said. The suspect fled in a mid-1990s light blue boxy style Dodge Caravan.

The baseball cap and sweatshirt later found by Patrolman Thomas Connor a short distance away from the bank.

Police said an undetermined amount of cash was stolen.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact the Mansfield Police Department Detective Division at 508-261-7301.

Police are still searching for a man who robbed the Sovereign Bank on Central Avenue in Seekonk last Saturday morning. That suspect was described as being a white male in his mid-40s, about 5-foot, 6-inches, who walked with a limp.

The Bank of America on Newport Avenue in Pawtucket was robbed less than a week before.

The last bank robbery in Mansfield was May 5 when the Webster Bank on Copeland Drive was robbed.

And the same Citizens Bank in the Stop & Shop that was robbed Friday night was also held up last September. A suspect, who has since been caught, is also a suspect in numerous bank robberies, including in Foxboro.