Niles man arrested in Hermitage, Pa. bank heist

HERMITAGE, Pa. — Police have arrested a suspect in the robbery of the Citizens Bank on East State Street last week.

Rodney J. Stefek, 43, whose last known address is on Mauro Circle in Niles, was arrested in the bank robbery Monday. He was to be arraigned in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh.

Stefek had been in the Trumbull County Jail since Friday on a probation violation, police said.

The FBI and Hermitage police got help from Niles and Howland Township police and the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections in identifying Stefek as a suspect, Hermitage police said.

The bank was robbed at 10:28 a.m. Dec. 8. A man approached a teller and gave her a note demanding money.