BOSTON (Reuters) - A bank robber this week sped away from his heist in a police car with flashing emergency lights, leaving New Hampshire police to investigate if one of the own may have been behind the wheel.
“We noticed one of our police cruisers was missing just before we got the call about the bank robbery, where witnesses said they saw one of our cars speeding away with the lights flashing,” said Sgt. Mark Fowke, a spokesman for the Manchester, New Hampshire, police department.
The robber held up a Fleet Bank branch around noon on Wednesday, Fowke said. Police have not named any suspects but have not ruled out the chance that the robber was someone on the force who would know how to turn on the cruiser’s lights and speed away.
Manchester is a city of 100,000 north of Boston and its police force owns more than two dozen cars to patrol the community, Fowke said.