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With loot in hand, he fled the bank to a waiting getaway car that was throbbing with the beat of the Mission Impossible theme song.

As they sped off, they laughed and joked that they had just completed a Mission Impossible job. The music, they would later tell detectives, just added a dash more excitement to the daring daylight holdup.

Then they ducked into a movie theater, holding up there until the heat cooled, "just like Bonnie and Clyde," they said.

That's the story Vincent William Selkirk and girlfriend Joanne C. Chiofolo told police in Haverhill, Mass., on Tuesday after they were arrested there on a charge of robbing the Barnett Bank in Weston on Oct. 10. No one was injured in the 11 a.m. robbery at 1625 N. Commerce Parkway.

Selkirk, 29, and Chiofolo, 20, a longtime Pembroke Pines resident who recently lived in Boynton Beach, will be held without bail in Massachusetts until extradited back to Broward County, said Broward Sheriff's Robbery Detective Chris Percival.

Both Selkirk and Chiofolo have confessed to the robbery and described the excitement they felt during and after the holdup, Percival said Wednesday.

Selkirk and Chiofolo also said they were running out of money and were planning to rob a Massachusetts bank on Wednesday. From there, Percival said, they planned to drive to New York City and hide out, just as Selkirk had done in the past.

Selkirk was identified as the Weston robbery suspect after a bank surveillance photo of the robbery was published. A tip identified him as the man who walked in the bank that Thursday and handed the teller a note stating "Put your money on the counter. I am armed."

The teller complied, said Jim Leljedal, Broward Sheriff's Office spokesman, and the robber fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.

When Haverhill police checked the house of a friend of Selkirk's for the Broward Sheriff's Office, they discovered the couple living there.

When police arrived at 9 p.m. Tuesday, Selkirk fled through a back door. He was quickly captured, Leljedal said. Chiofolo was arrested at 1 p.m. Wednesday when police returned to the house.

Selkirk, a construction worker who has a criminal history that includes out-of-state charges of grand theft, home invasion robbery and violation of probation dating back to 1991, is not a suspect in any other area bank robbery, Leljedal said.

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