New Castle Man Charged After Suspicious Bank Incident with Fake Gun

Delaware State Police have taken a 28-year-old New Castle resident into custody following a suspicious incident at a local credit union over the weekend.

Marcus McClain was charged with attempted robbery after an incident that unfolded Saturday morning, February 21, 2026, around 10:50 a.m. at Dover Federal Credit Union on Pulaski Highway in New Castle. Authorities responded after the financial institution’s alarm system was triggered.

According to police reports, McClain walked into the credit union wearing a face mask and gloves. When bank staff asked him to remove the face covering, he initially refused their requests. While McClain eventually took off the mask, he kept the gloves on and walked up to a bank teller, where he wrote down a monetary amount on paper…

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