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Pittsfield Police, K9 Unit Arrest Armed Robber

Pittsfield Police Department
This is a photo of K9 Rango of the Pittsfield Police Department.

Pittsfield Police arrested a 21-year-old man Monday for a nighttime armed and masked robbery at a local bank. 

Police say Benjamin Robertson was arrested Monday for robbing at gunpoint an employee of a local business who was making a night deposit at Citizens Bank on Merrill Road.

Robertson, 21, was found hiding near the bank by a Pittsfield Police K9 unit. Near him was a money bag and a BB gun designed to look like a real gun, according to police.

Robertson was arraigned Monday in Central Berkshire District Court.

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