Things aren't always what they appear to be.

After it was revealed in open court on Monday that accused bank robber Nicholas Liadis has an I.Q. below 70, the 35-year-old Carver resident was released on $5,000 cash bail following a hearing in Wareham District Court.

Liadis is charged with robbing the Taunton Federal Credit Union in Middleborough in November, 2012, and with the February robbery of Eastern Bank on Main Street in Wareham.

He was released into the custody of his father. He is now on house arrest and required to wear a GPS monitor.

Liadis had a bail hearing on Monday following a 20-day evaluation at Bridgewater State Hospital, which resulted in a report stating he is not competent to stand trial.

"Mr. Liadis, if I may be blunt, is [mentally] retarded," Liadis' attorney, Matt Walsh, said during the bail hearing.

Walsh maintains that Liadis was  "prompted and coached to commit these crimes by a convicted felon."

Prior to the robbery charges, Liadis had no criminal record. Wareham Week could not immediately confirm whether police are investigating the possibility of Liadis having an accomplice.

According to Walsh, Liadis was evaluated by the Carver Public Schools at age 16, and was found to be operating with the mental capacity of somebody between seven and eight years old.

Another evaluation at age 30 concluded that his I.Q. is below 70.

"This is a person who was diminished at birth, and will be diminished at death," according to Walsh, who added that no amount of treatment will change Liadis' mental capacity.

His father, George Liadis, addressed the court, saying that the family has unsuccessfully attempted to place Nicholas under guardianship many times.

The Plymouth District Attorney's office had requested that Liadis be held in lieu of $50,000 cash bail ($25,000 for each count of armed robbery), pending a competency hearing before a judge in Wareham District Court.

According to Assistant District Attorney Mary Nguyen, the Commonwealth will bring in an expert to evaluate Liadis in an effort to contest the findings. She also said that the DA's office plans to seek indictments prior to the competency hearing.

If Liadis is found by a judge to be competent to stand trial, and subsequently convicted, he faces no less than five years on each count, for a total of ten years in prison.

Police arrested Liadis on the evening of the robbery while he was working at Cox Corner Pizza in Duxbury. Liadis told Duxbury Police that the stolen money was in the trunk of his car, according to court documents.

Wareham Police obtained a warrant to search the car the following morning, and found stolen cash and the clothing and sunglasses police say he wore when he allegedly robbed Eastern Bank, according to court documents.