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Vacationing Army officer disarms bank robber
WWSB MySuncoast.com ^
| 5/31/11
| Southern Broadcast Corp of Sarasota
Posted on 06/01/2011 2:28:01 PM PDT by Teflonic
SARASOTA, Fla. - A bank customer turned hero Tuesday afternoon, when an Army Staff Sergeant on vacation helped sheriff's deputies catch an armed bank robber.
It happened around 2:30pm at the Bank of America on Bee Ridge Road at Beneva Road in Sarasota.
Staff Sergeant Eddie Peoples was at the bank with his children, when a robber walked in waving a gun and demanding money. Peoples and his family quickly took cover until the suspect left.
And that's when Peoples says instinct took over. Once he walked out of the bank and my children were no longer in jeopardy, I walked out behind him, got in my vehicle, came over where he was parked at, wedged him in
when he got out of the vehicle he put the gun in my face and told me he was going to shoot me. I took the weapon away from him, took the bag of money away from him, put him on the ground, and the deputies showed up, says Peoples.
Thanks to his heroic actions, deputies were able to arrest the suspect, 34-year-old Matthew Rogers.
Rogers has a long rap sheet, with charges including burglary and auto theft.
Peoples, a Sarasota native, says he was just doing the right thing and that his training in the Army has prepared him to handle anything. This is an everyday thing for the U.S. Army. I've been deployed 4 times; three to Iraq, once to Kuwait
so I've had my share of getting shot at and everything, so it just doesn't bother me anymore. I just couldn't let him get away with this.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: army; fl
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To: MasterGunner01
I agree.
I guess that is one things about being man. He needs his survival at stake to accomplish great things.
When life is peachy, he starts to play and stop being vigilant.
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posted on
06/02/2011 1:01:29 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
To: Teflonic
That is freakin' awesome!
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posted on
06/03/2011 10:10:49 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: Jonty30; 2ndDivisionVet
>> Were you looking forward to the opportunity of sending a black man to prison? Just asking.
Don’t play race games around here, noob. If you’re trolling for racists, you’re on the wrong site.
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posted on
06/03/2011 10:20:00 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(*** Jesus ***)
To: Gene Eric
It was a response to an equally ignorant posts.
Try to not read things into threads that aren’t there.
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posted on
06/03/2011 10:59:26 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
To: Jonty30
>> It was a response to an equally ignorant posts.
Reread the post in question. I interpret the remark as a defense of Staff Sergeant Peoples.
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posted on
06/03/2011 11:06:20 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(*** Jesus ***)
To: smokingfrog
Last night my son had to right something for school about “the human experience”. He already had two sports heros. I told him - “Watch this. This is a real hero, anda lot of it is due to him wanting to be a great dad.”
My son got the photo of him with his bare arms into the report too!
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posted on
06/03/2011 11:07:52 PM PDT
by
21twelve
( You can go from boom to bust, from dreams to a bowl of dust ... another lost generation.)
To: Gene Eric
I’m a responsive kind of guy. If my response is ignorant, you can be sure I was responding to a post on that level.
67
posted on
06/03/2011 11:14:34 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
To: Jonty30; All
Because it was obvious that he was pissed that there are legal limits of what you can do to criminals and so I figured he simply wanted to ensure some black man paid for the crime of robbing the pharmacist.
It just seems fair.
Now, if you had said, "Because it was obvious that he was pissed that there are legal limits of what you can do to criminals and so I figured he simply wanted to ensure the criminal paid for the crime of robbing the pharmacist." it would have been pretty unremarkable. However, inserting "some black man" made it the farthest thing from fair. Of course, you could just be an inarticulate writer.
68
posted on
06/03/2011 11:17:20 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: aruanan
I’m fairly articulate, actually pretty good.
Except, I’ve been typing everything on a Blackberry and I have about ten seconds between each post, so double checking my posts to keep them tidy is a bit of a luxury.
I’m just wondering what’s your excuse for your improper use of grammer and proper punctuation?
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posted on
06/03/2011 11:24:56 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
To: aruanan
Take note, aruanan, the challenge was “grammer” not spelling.
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posted on
06/03/2011 11:26:31 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(*** Jesus ***)
To: Jonty30
Im just wondering whats your excuse for your improper use of grammer and proper punctuation?
I did not abuse Kelsey Grammer! Oh, you mean "improper grammar" (as opposed to "improper use of grammer") and my not using a semicolon before "however," though I did correctly use a comma after it? Still, according to the Chicago Manual of Style: "However has been used as a conjunction since the fourteenth century. Like other conjunctions, it can be used at the beginning of a sentence." And I guess I could have left the period out of the quoted example, but I was giving you an out. Since "inarticulate" goes more toward the relative inability to accurately express what one thinks, if you were not inarticulate in the quote I referenced, then you actually did mean to make a really boneheaded statement. Of course, the use of a Blackberry could serve equally well as an excuse; perhaps Obama should consider the Blackberry defense.
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posted on
06/03/2011 11:56:22 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: aruanan
If he did, at least he’d have one.
72
posted on
06/03/2011 11:59:50 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
To: Jonty30
Barry is a Blackberry addict. In violation of standing protocol he’s kept his personal phone.
73
posted on
06/04/2011 12:53:43 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: aruanan
Somehow, I doubt that anybody is so addicted to a particular medium that they can’t use an accepted communications device.
We’ll just add it to the mystery that makes up Barry.
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posted on
06/04/2011 1:22:11 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
To: Jonty30
Somehow, I doubt that anybody is so addicted to a particular medium that they [sic] cant use an accepted communications device
Barry refused to give up his
Blackberry, so folks got the company to make an
extra-secure one for him.
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posted on
06/04/2011 6:11:01 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: Teflonic
And that's when Peoples says instinct took over.
Actually, that's when training took over. What kind of training? Aaaaarrmy training, sir.
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posted on
06/04/2011 6:14:38 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: Teflonic
Would be very nice if Bank of America gave Staff Sergeant Eddie Peoples or his children’s college fund a nice CD worth a thousand or three. But I don’t expect them to do squat for him other than saying thank you
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posted on
06/04/2011 1:55:11 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(NZT - "works better if you're already smart")
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