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Security guard follows hunch that leads to bank robber

Healthcare Security Weekly, November 20, 2006

A security guard, who followed her hunch that something just wasn't right, helped police ferret out a suspected bank robber who spent nearly three hours hidden in a Saginaw, Michigan hospital's supply closet.

The suspected robber was just 20 feet from a hospital exit but couldn't escape because the narrow closet he ducked into just off the ambulance entry at Covenant Medical Center locks from the outside, reported The Saginaw News. 

The incident began with a robbery and shooting at a bank branch just across the street from the hospital. During a three-hour lockdown and SWAT team search, dozens of police, patients, doctors, and other hospital staff had walked by the row of three closets. Then the 24-year-old security officer was escorting a patient past the closets and had a gut feeling, the newspaper reported. She spoke to an FBI agent standing nearby and asked if anyone had checked the closets. He wasn't sure and stood by, while she opened the three closet doors. Behind the third door, in a closet used to store ambulance cots, was the robber, who the armed federal agent took into custody.

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