By Ralph Cipriano
When the alarm went off inside a closed Bank of
America branch in South Philadelphia, a security camera captured a suspect wearing
a hoodie “attempting to gain access to the vault” and “tampering’ with an ATM
machine, according to police records.
When police responded to a call of a theft in
progress at 7:38 a.m. on Sept. 30, 2016, they ordered the suspect, still inside
the bank, “to come towards the officers” and open a locked back door. Taken
into custody was Kenneth D. Dixon, 20, of West Philadelphia.
As far as the cops were concerned, it was a
slam-dunk burglary arrest. But when they sent a probable cause affidavit over
to the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office, the D.A. shocked the cops later
that same day by declining to charge the suspect.
The rest of the story can be read here.
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