"Accused bank robber caught on 3d try" by Faiz Siddiqui | Globe Correspondent July 31, 2014
WILMINGTON — The man escaped from two banks with cash in hand Thursday morning, according to police, but a third time evidently was not the charm for the suspect, Daniel Diblasi, 59, of Billerica.
Wilmington police arrested Diblasi outside an Eastern Bank about noon after, they said, he tried to commit his third robbery in less than two hours when he allegedly reached the Eastern Bank branch on Main Street. A Wilmington police officer, Julie Pozzi, was waiting and watched his red SUV approach the drive-up window, according to police.
“The officer immediately drew [her] weapon and pointed it at the Explorer,” said Ian Anderson, 18, who was turning onto Middlesex Avenue when the scenario unfolded. “Three minutes later a bunch of cops pulled up.”
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Witnesses in Wilmington described a dramatic scene Thursday involving multiple officers, some with guns drawn, and a parking lot flooded with police cars....
On a usually quiet street, said workers and business owners, the influx of emergency vehicles and news helicopters came as a surprise. In an area at the heart of a grocery-store-chain protest movement, some had differing ideas of what had caused the commotion....
Someone “thought it was Market Basket,” while Eastern Bank spokesman Andrew Ravens said, “It’s great to get another bad guy off the street,” and Jack Shaw, the owner of J.F. Shaw Inc. across the street, added, “That’s kind of a strange way to rob a bank — through a drive-through window.”
It's a strange story, and who knows if it is real, a staged and scripted event, a fiction, or 100% true. That is simply that state we have reached with the AmeriKan ma$$ media.
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