Kelly Campbell Bank Robber
Authorities say the man accepted as the “Brim Beanie Bandit” was arrested Thursday by Braintree Police. Daniel Cathcart, 45, 27 Kenilworth Road in Milton, was answerable with annexation a Stoughton coffer alert and may face added charges.
STOUGHTON – The agenda said a adolescent was in danger:
"We accept this dude's little girl. Give him all the money in both of your drawers or the kid dies. No bags, no ink packets, no electronics, aloof duke him cash. Wait a minute to hit the alarm. Let him get away. Give him a adventitious to save his babyish babe or you will be responsible. Don't accomplish him use the 9mm in his pocket."
That was the agenda prosecutors said the man doubtable as the "Brim Beanie Bandit" anesthetized to a teller on Dec. 13 during a coffer robbery at South Shore Coffer in Stoughton. He is accused of annexation the aforementioned coffer on Jan. 6.
Daniel Cathcart, 45, of 27 Kenilworth Road, Milton was arraigned in Stoughton District Cloister Friday on two accuse of armed robbery and two accuse of a blackmail to accomplish a crime.
Authorities accept he beggared six added breadth banks in contempo weeks cutting a atramentous or gray border beanie cap, aphotic sweatshirt or jacket, atramentous pants, atramentous covering gloves and aphotic atramentous shoes.
Cathcart was escorted by a Stoughton Badge detective into the ancillary access of Stoughton District Cloister about 1:15 p.m. Friday. He was cutting a Boston Red Sox anorak and angry his arch abroad from an Enterprise anchorman and columnist to adumbrate his face.
In court, Cathcart stood center up the stairwell to the captivation breadth so as not to be seen, which Adjudicator Cathleen Campbell allowed.
Peter Kelly, prosecutor for the Norfolk County District Attorney's office, said Cathcart is accused of annexation the aforementioned Stoughton coffer twice, on Dec. 13 and Jan. 6. Kelly declared the Dec. 13 robbery to Adjudicator Campbell.
Kelly said a changeable teller was approached by a white macho who had his arch bottomward and handed her a agenda about 10:30 a.m.
"He said to her 'I'm apologetic I accept to do this.'" Kelly said. "She adumbrated that he kept saying, 'I'm sorry.'"
"She gave him all the money in the drawer added the allurement money," he said. "The teller told badge that the bandit said, 'Please don't acquaint them appropriate away. Let me get away.'"
Police say Cathcart fabricated abroad with $8,518 that day.
"There were added coffer robberies breadth a agnate agenda was accustomed to the teller by the doubtable who akin the concrete and accouterment description of the doubtable in the South Shore Coffer robberies," Kelly told the judge.
The added robberies, in which Cathcart has not been charged, were at the TD Coffer in Quincy on Dec. 10 breadth $2,400 was stolen, the TD Coffer in Needham on Dec.19 breadth $2,333 was stolen, the Braintree Cooperative Coffer in Braintree on Dec. 23 breadth $2,550 was taken, the Dedham Savings Coffer in Dedham on Jan. 10 breadth $4,000 was taken, and the South Shore Coffer in Norwell on Dec. 16, Kelly said. It was not said in cloister if any money was baseborn in the Norwell robbery.
In the South Shore Savings in Stoughton on Jan. 6, $1,252 was stolen.
Kelly asked Campbell for bond to be set at $500,000.
Cathcart's court-appointed aegis advocate Jim Gavigan said his applicant is affiliated and has three children. They hire their abode at 27 Kenilworth Road in Milton and accept lived there for three years.
Gavigan said Cathcart works in sales from his abode for a software engineering aggregation declared ArborGold Software, based out of Indiana. Gavigan asked that bond be set at $10,000.
A LinkedIn annual beneath the name Dan Cathcart says he is a alum of UMass Lowell.
In antecedent weeks the FBI appealed to the accessible gluttonous advice in anecdotic the "Brim Beanie Bandit."
After the Jan. 10 Dedham robbery, badge accustomed a description of a vehicle, a 2001-03 Acura MDX, believed to accord to the robber.
Cathcart was arrested by badge Thursday afterwards Braintree Badge saw a man in a agent applicable the robber's description in a gold Acura MDX in the parking lot of a Panera Bread in Braintree. The coffer in Norwell was beggared the aforementioned day.
Kelly said badge begin atramentous covering gloves, a atramentous jacket, a atramentous affiliate cap and a baseball cap in the aback bench of the car.
Also Thursday, a chase accreditation was issued for his home so that badge could attending for added evidence.
They bedeviled computers and begin added affiliate caps and atramentous covering gloves and several pieces of white and chicken cardboard constant with the admeasurement of the cardboard of the address addendum acclimated in the robberies, Kelly said.
Cathcart was begin accusable in a case in Dedham District Cloister in 2002 for artifice and burglary beneath $250, Kelly said. He has an accessible case out of Dedham District Cloister for operating with a abeyant allotment and an allowance violation.
"There may be addition accreditation out of Quincy District Cloister for robberies in the Quincy area," Kelly told the judge.
Campbell ordered Cathcart captivated on $150,000 banknote bond and said if he fabricated bond he would be appropriate to abrasion a GPS ecology accessory set to anticipate him from advancing the locations of the declared offenses. He was additionally ordered to break abroad from any victims or abeyant witnesses.
Gavigan told the adjudicator he would be filing a bond appeal.
Cathcart is due in cloister afresh Feb. 28 for a probable-cause hearing.
Benjamin Paulin may be accomplished at bpaulin@enterprisenews.com.
