Dive summary:
- Construction workers at a project in South Portland did not need much time to decide what to do about a man running through their site after someone yelled that he was a bank robber.
- They approached the man, who they noticed had red dye on his hands, he took a swing at one of them and that was the end of his flight as a worker knocked him down and the crew held him until Portland police arrived.
- The robbery happened shortly before at a Bank of the West branch on SE Division Street, a few blocks from the construction site, police said, and a man fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.
From the article:
According to a witness, the suspect ran through a construction site and somebody yelled, "That guy just robbed a bank!" ...