LoKyBuckeye
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http://www.mysuncoast.com/content/t...sarms-bank-robber/7NW1ocIlsUWZXJMuA1hGvQ.cspx
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.?