ISLAND FALLS, Maine — A Crystal Road bank that was robbed Tuesday reopened for business Wednesday morning as Maine State Police continued to search for the perpetrator.
Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Department of Public Safety, said late Wednesday that the investigation into the robbery of Katahdin Trust Co. remains ongoing.
Shortly before noon Tuesday, a lone man robbed the bank that is located about 30 miles southwest of Houlton.
Troopers said no weapon was shown and only two bank tellers were in the building at the time. The robber, who McCausland said was dressed from head to toe in black, demanded money and made off with an undisclosed amount of cash in a blue bag that he had brought with him.
Jon Prescott, president and CEO of the bank, said it was business as usual Wednesday afternoon at the Island Falls bank. He said he could not comment on whether the bank had any cameras in the facility that may have captured an image of the robber.
Troopers believe the man had parked his getaway vehicle between two potato houses, a short distance away from the bank.
Anyone with information on the robbery is asked to call state police in Houlton at 532-5400.
There are enough rats in this area, surely someone with tell on who ever committed this act.
Funny how you think it’s acceptable to rob a bank, and terrorize the tellers, but if you turn in scum/cowards that do the robbing you’re a rat. Excellent reasoning.
Don’t ya know – RAT stands for Right Action Taken?
YAAAAA……..In the real world it’s a term used negatively for people that “rat somebody out”. Along the same lines as a “narc”. Neither of which are looked upon favorably by criminals. Both of which can get you hurt by said criminals.
I understand, but if enough people take a stand, come up with a new meeting for the word- it will then have a pos’t conotation.
Ha. Good luck with that. The term has been used for decades with a negative meaning. e.g. – the mafia.
It is what it is, man. You can campaign to have people look at it favorably, but the people on the street, drug dealers, mafia, etc., are always going to use it as someone that sells them out.
ignorant – arn’t you!
Ignorant – no.
Realistic – yes.
arn’t? I “arn’t” ignorant.
you really don’t get it do you.
I get it perfectly well. You think people should “stand-up”, and make a change. Make the term “rat” as something positive that brings us together as a people and community. We should rejoice with each other, hold hands, and honor the rats of society. It’s a community building thing. It’s a change in the world that goes much deeper than the term rat. It’s about honoring good, standing together and not allowing evil to dictate how we are viewed by calling us a word. Ya, I get it.
I think your intentions are great, but I’d spend my time on bigger and better things. It’s a word. In this case, a meaningless word. It’s not my or other good citizens’ opinions that you need to change about this word. It’s the loser drug dealer, the loser drug user, the killer in the mafia, the heartless gang member. So, for the amount of useless energy it would take to try and persuade those scums of society, and having it never pay off; I say – let them have their word. I will happily be a rat. A slimy, law abiding rat that tells on murderers, drug dealers, and other criminals.
You’re arguing for the sake of arguing. I’m the good guy.
but to change the meaning of the word it takes you and I and others to change that meaning for everyone. It needs to start somewhere and it definitly wont start with the other guy. It will start with teaching out kids what it means to you and I.
Maybe you don’t get that it doesn’t matter what criminals call you, as a decent citizen. Maybe what matters is how you view yourself and know, with confidence, that although a murderer is calling you a rat – you did the right thing.
Maybe it’s you that doesn’t get it. You place all the importance on a word, comprised of four letters. When it really comes down to the fact that good people don’t view you as a rat. The scum does, but what does that matter?
RAT – three letters
Probably headed to Canada.
Or in your backyard!
if he did it alone and tells nobody he may not have to worry about rats or cameras if they did not see his face
I would call them a good person not a rat
I agree.
written like a true rat
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They will never catch him its Island Falls; the police force
up there doesn’t have any experience at this type of crime.
Uncle Jesse and the Boys will figure it out. Tell Roscoe and Boss Hog to sit this one out.
That is not true Dana…..You need to give the State Police a little more credit than that.How would you know any way?????
The police force up there is the Maine State Police. They have plenty of experience with this type of crime. Excellent comment though.
Island falls doesn’t have a police force,its the state police who handle that area.
we can take one man’s heart to help another one live, and even go to the moon and come back thrilled; we can make a deaf man hear and a dumb man speak, so it makes no sense that we can’t make peace.
HUH ?
I think Isumom is referring to the pie in the sky dream that we can achieve world peace in our lifetime. What these idealists/pacifists are forgetting is that there have been entirely justifiable hatreds built up over the centuries on this planet. If they think they can undo all that in a single generation they are displaying incredible naitive and/or arrogance. Also they must realize that the human condition isn’t going to change until the human heart changes.
Are they the ones that don’t believe in owning guns?
Both for themselves and everyone else?