PLAINS TOWNSHIP -- Federal authorities announced Wednesday that they have charged a man from Luzerne County with seven bank robberies and attempted bank robberies, along with the robbery of a store.
Timothy Fenster, 29, of Plains was taken into custody in January after an attempted robbery of First National Community Bank in Jenkins Township, near Pittston.
Now federal investigators have linked him to several other robberies:
- armed robbery of Community Bank, Laceyville, on December 17, 2014;
- armed robbery of M&T Bank, Hanover Township, on December 22, 2014;
- armed robbery of First National Community Bank (FNCB), Plains Township, on January 14, 2015;
- armed robbery of M&T Bank, Wilkes-Barre, on January 22, 2015;
- armed robbery of Community Bank, Meshoppen, on January 26, 2015;
- armed robbery of Family Dollar, Ashley, on January 28, 2015;
- attempted robbery of First Keystone Community Bank, Plymouth, on January 29, 2015;
- attempted robbery of FNCB, Jenkins Township, on January 29, 2015.
Fenster is in custody.