Alleged 'bicycle bandit': It wasn't me - lehighvalleylive.com
"You cannot depend on 'It looks like him' because people look alike . The wrong person is on trial," Steven Felton said Tuesday morning. Felton rode the bike to a dark GMC Envoy parked near the businesses he robbed, police said. Police have surveillance video from some of the robberies, which all have the same modus operandi, Falk said. Investigators noted that in only one robbery -- in Emmaus -- the bandit wore a hockey mask, and took that to mean he must live in the area and didn't want to be recognized, Falk said. Records showed a dark GMC Envoy registered to Josephine Felton, Steven's wife, in Emmuas, and when police checked the vehicle, it had damage exactly like the vehicle seen in some of the surveillance video, Falk said. A search of the Felton's borough home revealed clothing matching those used in the robberies, an air gun that matched the description of the weapon used, and the hockey mask, Falk said. "The structure of the policing in your community needs changing," he said, later adding, "This is about a flawed method of policing that never gets challenged. Source: www.lehighvalleylive.com
