[JLS]

The more I think about this case the odder everything seems:

1. Why didn't the police find out how he was supposed to get out of the bomb?

2. Surely if he was forced there was to be a transfer of the money to the other party?

3. Surely if he was not forced, he would have been willing to tell them where he had the key. Heck if he built the thing, why didn't free himself?

Instead they hid behind patrol cars???????

[Hatteras]

"Instead they hid behind patrol cars???????"

...and you would have....what? Held his hand through the ordeal?

[GovernmentShrinker]

They had very little time to determine whether Wells' claim that someone else put it on him was true. Letting a guy who just robbed a bank and claims to have a bomb attached to him, go off wherever he says he has to go to lead police back to the "real perp", doesn't sound like good police practice. The real perp started out in a "remote location", such that he would almost certainly have been able to keep out of sight until he wanted to be seen -- and he would only have wanted to be seen if Wells was clearly alone and displaying the money. If Wells showed up with police in tow (and no, the police weren't going to let the bank robber with a bomb out of their sight), perp would stay out of sight 'til the bomb went off, then make his escape during the confusion.

The whole thing stinks, and the only lesson to be learned is that NO ONE should be making deliveries to unknown customers and/or locations without exercising his/her RKBA.