Torrez was found hiding in an Oak Grove Avenue basement and covered with ink from an exploded dye pack 90 minutes after the robbery.
This is an update of a story originally posted at 4:16 p.m.
SPRINGFIELD - Police arrested 46-year-old Luis Torrez of Springfield Friday afternoon and charged him with robbing a State Street bank 90 minutes earlier, said Sgt. John Delaney, spokesman for Police Commissioner William J. Fitchet.
Torrez was found hiding in the basement of 71 Oak Grove Avenue, about two blocks away from the TD Bank branch at 958 State St. that was reported robbed at about 3:30 p.m.
When police found him, he was covered with paint from an exploding dye pack that was hidden in the money from the bank, Delaney said.
Members of the Springfield police Detective Bureau and the Street Crimes Unit trailed him to Oak Grove Avenue and had him in custody at about 5 p.m. Delaney praised the work of officers to close the case within 90 minutes.
Torrez was charged with armed robbery, Delaney said.
Police allege he walked into the bank and showed the teller a note demanding cash. No weapon was shown, but Torrez implied he was armed, Delaney said.
Torrez fled the scene on a bicycle with an undisclosed amount of cash.
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It was the second time in four days the same bank branch, directly across State Street from American International College, was robbed, and each ended in an arrest..
The first robbery was Tuesday afternoon at about 5 p.m., and a suspect, identified as 35-year-old Sean Moynihan of Holyoke, was arrested the following day in Easthampton.