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July 10th, 2008, 09:43 AM
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Hartford - After word came over the city public works radio Tuesday morning that police were looking for someone who had just held up a nearby gas station, Hartford Fire Chief Paul Stephans thought the perpetrator might be fleeing east toward the downtown fire station.
“I opened up the overhead door (of the fire station) and kept a heads up, looking for anything out of the ordinary,” Stephans said.
“I saw something very out of the ordinary.”
What Stephans saw was a man riding a bicycle dressed only in his underwear — briefs, not boxers — and the underwear was stuffed with something.
“At first I thought it was a Speedo,” Stephans said.
Stephans radioed police as the man rode his bike past the city’s Recreation Department building, the Schauer Arts and Activities Center “and right up to the fire station.”
Officers arrived “in seconds,” Stephans said, and arrested Patrick J. Bishop, 37, of Hartford, who was still bicycling toward downtown.
According to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday in Washington County Circuit Court, the near-naked Bishop waved toward police, telling them that the man who robbed the gas station was to the southwest of their location.
Once they stopped Bishop, police quickly grew skeptical of that story. Officers found in Bishop’s briefs a wad of cash totaling $412, a wallet and an unopened pack of cigarettes, according to the complaint.
According to the criminal complaint, Bishop entered the gas station just before 10 a.m. wearing a pair of blue coveralls and bought a pack of cigarettes. When the cashier opened the cash drawer, Bishop pulled a handgun, repeatedly demanded that the cashier “give it up” and then took cash from the register.
During a search along the bike path, police found a toy gun and articles of clothing including white socks, rubber boots and blue coveralls.
Bishop told police he had been robbed of his clothing by someone who looked like him, but that the robber did not want the money or the cigarettes. Bishop was identified as the robber from video surveillance and by the clerk, the complaint says.
Bishop appeared in court Wednesday, where bail was set at $10,000. He is in custody at the Washington County Jail.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=771016
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Hartford - After word came over the city public works radio Tuesday morning that police were looking for someone who had just held up a nearby gas station, Hartford Fire Chief Paul Stephans thought the perpetrator might be fleeing east toward the downtown fire station.
“I opened up the overhead door (of the fire station) and kept a heads up, looking for anything out of the ordinary,” Stephans said.
“I saw something very out of the ordinary.”
What Stephans saw was a man riding a bicycle dressed only in his underwear — briefs, not boxers — and the underwear was stuffed with something.
“At first I thought it was a Speedo,” Stephans said.
Stephans radioed police as the man rode his bike past the city’s Recreation Department building, the Schauer Arts and Activities Center “and right up to the fire station.”
Officers arrived “in seconds,” Stephans said, and arrested Patrick J. Bishop, 37, of Hartford, who was still bicycling toward downtown.
According to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday in Washington County Circuit Court, the near-naked Bishop waved toward police, telling them that the man who robbed the gas station was to the southwest of their location.
Once they stopped Bishop, police quickly grew skeptical of that story. Officers found in Bishop’s briefs a wad of cash totaling $412, a wallet and an unopened pack of cigarettes, according to the complaint.
According to the criminal complaint, Bishop entered the gas station just before 10 a.m. wearing a pair of blue coveralls and bought a pack of cigarettes. When the cashier opened the cash drawer, Bishop pulled a handgun, repeatedly demanded that the cashier “give it up” and then took cash from the register.
During a search along the bike path, police found a toy gun and articles of clothing including white socks, rubber boots and blue coveralls.
Bishop told police he had been robbed of his clothing by someone who looked like him, but that the robber did not want the money or the cigarettes. Bishop was identified as the robber from video surveillance and by the clerk, the complaint says.
Bishop appeared in court Wednesday, where bail was set at $10,000. He is in custody at the Washington County Jail.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=771016
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