A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to multiple bank robberies in Connecticut and New Hampshire. The U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, David X. Sullivan, announced that Taylor Dziczek, 43, formerly of Chicopee, Massachusetts, entered his plea before U.S. District Judge Sarala V. Nagala in Hartford.
Court records show that the FBI and local law enforcement agencies investigated a series of bank and credit union robberies between September 2021 and August 2022 across Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, and New Hampshire. Authorities identified Dziczek as a suspect after he robbed Peoples United Bank in Plainville, Connecticut on May 26, 2022.
During the Plainville robbery, Dziczek handed a teller a note stating: “I have a gun. Don‘t call 911. Don‘t set off any alarms.” When the teller indicated she had no more money to give him, Dziczek displayed what appeared to be a black firearm from his sweatshirt pocket and said: “Give me all the money,” “I have a gun,” and “Don‘t be a hero.”
After taking cash from the teller and discarding some of the paper money wrappers at the scene, detectives collected these items as evidence.
On October 21, 2022, FBI agents observed Dziczek at MGM Casino in Springfield, Massachusetts. They recovered an energy drink can with a straw used by Dziczek; laboratory analysis later matched DNA from this straw to DNA found on the discarded money wrappers from the Plainville robbery.
Dziczek was arrested on December 1, 2022.
He pleaded guilty to three counts of bank robbery and admitted responsibility for robbing branches in Somers (Webster Bank), East Windsor (Key Bank), Meriden (Liberty Bank) — all in Connecticut — as well as TD Bank in Nashua, New Hampshire. During one incident at TD Bank on June 3, 2022, he pointed what appeared to be a black pistol at tellers.
Judge Nagala set sentencing for February 20, 2026; Dziczek faces up to sixty years in prison and has agreed to pay $82,567 in restitution. He remains detained pending sentencing.
The investigation involved numerous law enforcement agencies including divisions of the FBI from New Haven (Connecticut), Boston (Massachusetts), Albany (New York), along with state police departments from Connecticut and Massachusetts; local police departments across all affected states also participated. The Division of Scientific Services within Connecticut’s Department of Emergency Services provided forensic support.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Daniel E. Cummings and Stephanie T. Levick are prosecuting the case. U.S. Attorney Sullivan expressed appreciation for cooperation among offices: "U.S. Attorney Sullivan thanked the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Districts of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Vermont and for their close cooperation in investigating and prosecuting this matter."
