A man was arrested Wednesday following a standoff at a Meriden hotel after he was named a person of interest in a bank robbery in Middletown.

Officers responded to Liberty Bank at 460 South Main St. in Middletown around 9:19 a.m. on Saturday for a report of a robbery, according to the Middletown Police Department .

Witnesses alleged that a man walked into the bank and “implied that he had a weapon,” police said. “Employees complied with the suspect’s demands for money and he left with an undetermined amount of cash.”

Following an initial investigation, detectives from the Major Investigations Unit developed a suspect identified as 61-year-old Bruce Vaughan, according to police.

Vaughan was located at a hotel in Meriden around 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning. Officers from the Middleto

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