BATH, Pa. (AP) — As he leafed through the newspaper Wednesday morning, acting Police Chief James Cavallo thought there was something awfully familiar about the bank robbery suspect pictured in a grainy surveillance photo.
Studying the suspect's slender build, the way he carried himself, the red baseball cap he wore, Cavallo came to a terrible realization: The man who had robbed the bank was his own son.
And so, as painful as it was, he turned him in.
"I knew I had to do it," the police chief of Moore Township, near Allentown, said Friday. "There was no question about it."
Police arrested James Cavallo Jr., 28, on Wednesday and charged him with robbery, theft and receiving stolen property. After making what police said was a videotaped confession, he was jailed on $500,000 bail.
The elder Cavallo said his son told him he was high on cocaine Tuesday when he walked into a local bank with only a cap as a disguise, handed the teller a note claiming he had a gun, and walked out with $6,000.