NEWARK -- Police have accused a 50-year-old city man of robbing a bank -- and then of returning to the same bank the following day and trying to rob it again.

Kenneth Stassa entered the Wells Fargo on Bloomfield Avenue shortly after 9 a.m. June 12 and passed the teller a note reading, "Give me a thousand dollars, I have a bomb," according to Sgt. Ron Glover, a police spokesman. The teller handed Stassa an unknown amount of cash and activated the alarm. Stassa, who was described by the teller as a 6-foot white man with a salt and pepper beard, fled the scene on foot.

Just about 24 hours later, around 10 a.m. June 13, Stassa returned to the 100 block of Bloomfield Avenue, where the Wells fargo is located, but this time entered a different, nearby bank, Valley National, Glover said.

When a Valley National security guard asked Stassa to remove his baseball cap and sunglasses, Stassa began to act strangely and left, Glover said. Suspicious, the security guard watched as Stassa then went into the Wells Fargo and, suspecting Stassa might be the man who robbed the bank the day before, called police.

Police responding to the bank were told that Stassa was still inside and that he told a teller, "This is a robbery, give me fifties and hundreds." The teller told a co-worker in Spanish she was being robbed, who then told the manager. The manager, the bank's security guard and arriving officers subdued Stassa, Glover said. He was charged with both the June 12th and 13th robberies.

"I applaud the citizens that came together with our police officers. It was through this partnership that we were able to apprehend and remove this individual from our streets," stated Police Director Eugene Venable.

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