Kittery woman suspected in bank robberies arrested in Westbrook

WESTBROOK — Police today arrested a Kittery woman suspected in a rash of bank robberies.

Westbrook police said they worked with authorities Farmington, N.H., to track and arrest Bethany Colson, 22, on Park Road.  She was charged with being a fugitive from justice.

Police said Colson was wanted in New Hampshire for conspiracy to commit bank robbery.

Colson was one of four suspects arrested in a series of bank robberies in Maine and New Hampshire.

The others, 22-year-old Christopher Hildreth, 19-year-old Bo Rodden and 19-year-old Eric Nielsen — all of South Berwick –- were charged Thursday in connection with bank robberies in Dover and Farmington, N.H.

Colson was being held at the Cumberland County jail.

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