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November 14, 2007

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Off-duty Ky. officer helps nab bank robber

By Beverly Fortune and Brandon Ortiz
The Lexington Herald-Leader

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A bank robbery suspect was chased down and arrested yesterday by three Lexington police officers, one of whom had helped pull co-pilot James Polehinke out of the flaming wreckage of Comair Flight 5191.

A second Lexington bank was also robbed yesterday, and a robbery was attempted at a third bank later in the day, police said. The incidents appear unrelated.

Officer Bryan Jared was off duty, dressed in street clothes and driving his cruiser to run errands, when he heard about a robbery at BB&T at 2489 Sir Barton Way on his police radio. Jared rushed to the scene. Bank employees, standing in the parking lot, said the suspect had taken off on foot, running toward the Tuscany subdivision.

Jared saw fresh muddy footprints headed toward Tuscany, where a man directed him to a field behind two houses under construction.

In the distance, Jared saw a figure. He jumped out of his car and started running across the field, joined by Officer Mitch Damron, who had arrived on the scene. On the other side of the field, Officer Jerry McIntrye also came running. "The guy was standing in the creek. We went up, confronted him and took him into custody," Jared said. The suspect didn't resist.

Being able to respond quickly to the bank robbery, Jared said, justifies the policy that allows officers to take their cruisers home and use them off duty. "We have to respond to any crime near us, or stop at any accident," he said.

Jared, 30, a Henry Clay High School graduate, has been on the force eight years. When a call like yesterday's bank robbery comes along, "It still gives you butterflies," he said.

"I don't know if I'm in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time, but I'm very blessed," he said.

Lexington police Lt. James Curless said of Jared, "He did an outstanding job."

Recently, the National Transportation Safety Board honored Jared, two Blue Grass Airport police officers who helped rescue Polehinke, and others who responded to the August 2006 crash, which killed 49 people. Polehinke was the only survivor.

Wiley J. Bailey, 44, was arrested and charged in the BB&T robbery. Police say the suspect had flashed a gun at a clerk and demanded money. Police responded to the 911 call at 1:56 p.m.

About three hours earlier, police had responded to reports that a man wearing a Halloween mask had robbed the Chase Bank at 1205 North Broadway with a handgun. He fled the scene with an undisclosed sum of money.

The suspect was not apprehended.

Police say he was wearing a beige "old man" mask, dark stocking cap, gray hooded sweatshirt, light blue raincoat, dark pants with a stripe down the outside seam and black gloves.

A robbery attempt at 2:59 p.m. at the First Federal Bank at 3346 Tates Creek Road was unsuccessful, police said.

Police say a masked man tried to enter the bank but could not get in. They say he resembled a man who has robbed the bank three other times in recent months. Police were searching for the suspect last night.

Copyright 2007 Lexington Herald-Leader

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