BOSTON — A Chelsea man has been charged with robbing a bank while on supervised release for the same crime, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts.
Federal agents arrested 66-year-old Edward Robert Rezendes Tuesday and charged him with one count of bank robbery.
According to court documents, Rezendes robbed a TD Bank branch in Chelsea on September 10 and got away with $3,760 in cash. He was on supervised release for an unrelated bank robbery at the time.
On Tuesday, the judge ordered Rezendes be detained during his arraigned at federal court in South Boston.
If convicted on the bank robbery charge, Rezendes faces up to ten years in prison followed by three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000.