Just when you're getting tired of that stupid cliche about Charlestown bank robbers ...

A Charlestown man who's served federal time for beating up two park rangers near the Bunker Hill Monument is in trouble with the law again - this time on charges he held up a local bank and convenience store.

Boston Police report arresting John Crilley, 45, on charges he held up the Santander Bank branch at 437 Rutherford Ave. yesterday and the A-1 Variety Store on Main Street a week earlier.

Police say that around 9:30 a.m., yesterday, Crilley walked into the bank branch:

The suspect grabbed a bank employee, said that he had a gun and demanded money. The employees complied, gave the suspect money with dye packs, and the suspect fled out the main entrance of the bank and took a right towards Main Street.

Police say Crilley, clad in a face mask and a yellow raincoat, pedaled away on a bicycle. A bicycle? Yes, townie bank robbers are not what they used to be:

Officers checked the area for the suspect, and an officer momentarily saw a male wearing a yellow rain jacket ducking in and out of the housing area near Essex Street and Tibbettstown Way. A witness also observed a white male wearing a yellow rain jacket on a bike, that had something smoking (possibly a dye pack) headed in the direction of Tibbettstown Way at the archway.

After reviewing video from the bank and the housing area, officers, in collaboration with agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, were able to positively identify the suspect and arrested him without incident behind a relative’s residence on Tibbettstown Way.

Crilley is scheduled for arraignment on charges of assault and battery and armed robbery tomorrow in Charlestown District Court. He'll also be arraigned on a separate armed-robbery charge for a hold up at the A-1 Variety Store on Sept. 27, police say.

In 2007, Crilley was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison after his conviction on charges that he reacted to being pulled over near the Bunker Hill monument for defective tail lights by beating up the two National Park Service rangers who had pulled him over.

Innocent, etc.