Federal and state agents arrested an Edgartown man this week for his connection to an armed bank robbery in Falmouth. New details about the crime were released by investigators.

Peter Petyoshin, 40, of Edgartown was arrested in connection to the April robbery of the Rockland Trust Bank on Davis Straits, according to a news release from Cape & Islands District Attorney Robert J. Galibois’s office. Mr. Petyoshin was taken into custody while he was doing his business at the Martha’s Vineyard Registry of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday, May 23, according to officials.

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