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Hooksett man helps catch suspected robber
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Hooksett man helps catch suspected robber
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - A Hooksett man who thought and acted fast is being credited with helping to catch a suspected bank robber.
James Cartmill, a 6-foot-5-inch 250-pound father of two, was in the Cathedral Credit Union in Manchester on Friday afternoon when the teller told him a man who just left the bank had robbed her.
"When she said she got robbed, I just reacted," he said.
So he followed the man, who was wearing a green cap and a sweat shirt, outside the bank. He watched the man toss the cap in a trash bin not far from the building, and the sweat shirt in another.
"I remembered the teller said (the robber) had said he had a gun, but I didn't see any weapon in the guy's belt area when he took the sweat shirt off," Cartmill said.
That's when Cartmill walked up to the man and announced he was making a citizen's arrest.
"He bolted, tried to run, but he only took four or five steps and I had him," said Cartmill, who used tricks he had learned working in security to grab the man and pin him to the ground.
"He didn't swing to punch me, but he was trying to pull away from me," Cartmill said. "He said, `You've got the wrong person.' I said, `No, I don't. You tried to run from me."'
Cartmill held the man until police arrived and charged Alexander Boyce, 40, of Manchester, with robbery.
While waiting for police to question him about the incident, Cartmill walked back to the bank to finish what he'd come for in the first place, cashing checks.
"The bank was closed, but I had to stay in the bank and wait for the detectives to come, so they (bank employees) said they would cash my checks," he said. "My hands were shaking so much that my signature was kind of unrecognizable. I hope the checks clear."
http://www.fosters.com/news2002a/apr02/22/bu0422g.htm
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - A Hooksett man who thought and acted fast is being credited with helping to catch a suspected bank robber.
James Cartmill, a 6-foot-5-inch 250-pound father of two, was in the Cathedral Credit Union in Manchester on Friday afternoon when the teller told him a man who just left the bank had robbed her.
"When she said she got robbed, I just reacted," he said.
So he followed the man, who was wearing a green cap and a sweat shirt, outside the bank. He watched the man toss the cap in a trash bin not far from the building, and the sweat shirt in another.
"I remembered the teller said (the robber) had said he had a gun, but I didn't see any weapon in the guy's belt area when he took the sweat shirt off," Cartmill said.
That's when Cartmill walked up to the man and announced he was making a citizen's arrest.
"He bolted, tried to run, but he only took four or five steps and I had him," said Cartmill, who used tricks he had learned working in security to grab the man and pin him to the ground.
"He didn't swing to punch me, but he was trying to pull away from me," Cartmill said. "He said, `You've got the wrong person.' I said, `No, I don't. You tried to run from me."'
Cartmill held the man until police arrived and charged Alexander Boyce, 40, of Manchester, with robbery.
While waiting for police to question him about the incident, Cartmill walked back to the bank to finish what he'd come for in the first place, cashing checks.
"The bank was closed, but I had to stay in the bank and wait for the detectives to come, so they (bank employees) said they would cash my checks," he said. "My hands were shaking so much that my signature was kind of unrecognizable. I hope the checks clear."
http://www.fosters.com/news2002a/apr02/22/bu0422g.htm
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878