A Garden City South bank customer?s quick thinking helped police catch a man they say is responsible for seven bank robberies in Nassau.

Vincenzo Fonte was at the State Bank of Long Island Friday when he noticed another customer hand a teller a note. Fonte says he then immediately left the bank and watched the suspect drive off. Fonte then gave a description of the vehicle to the bank.

Police arrested 35-year-old Loreto Ferri Jr., of West Hempstead, after a brief chase. Police say Ferri collided with a cruiser during the chase. No one was seriously hurt.

Ferri is charged with six other bank robberies in less than two months.