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Det. Rick Halloran
Named
December Employee of the Month
At 2227 hours, on October 27, 2002, two teenage
female employees of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream were preparing to secure
the business for the night when they heard someone knocking on the back
door. They opened the door and encountered two men wearing hooded
sweatshirts, ski masks, and each brandishing a handgun. The pair burst
into the building and placed a gun in the neck of one of the females
while the other had a gun stuck in her face. While on the floor they
were ordered to open the safe and at one point, one of the females was
dragged by her hair into the back room.
Traumatized by the experience, the females were hysterical when
responding Officers Brian Ingham, Edward Arena, Kevin Delehanty and
Detective Richard Halloran Jr. arrived. After the responding officers
were able to assuage the females' concerns, Detective Halloran began to
gather information, dust for fingerprints, and retrieve a video of the
robbery.
Using information obtained from the two female employees and from a
witness located by Officer Arena, Detective Halloran was able to
determine the identities of the suspects. He contacted and coordinated
with both the Framingham and Greenfield Police Departments in numerous
attempts to locate the suspects before he was finally able to interview
one of the suspects on Monday, October 28, 2002. The 19 year old suspect
came to police headquarters with his father who insisted he be present
for the interview and shut off the interview when it got to the
accusatory stage.
Confident in the progression and validity of his investigation, between
October 28, 2002 and November 7, 2002 Detective Halloran, assisted by
Detective Haswell, doggedly pursued the second suspect in the robbery
eventually convincing him to admit his involvement. The accumulated
information from Detective Halloran's persistent and thorough
investigation led to an arrest warrant being issued for and the eventual
surrender of the first suspect.
The success of this investigation is in part attributable to the efforts
of a number of NPD officers, but had it not been for Detective
Halloran's persistence and investigative experience, this case may well
have remained unsolved.
For his excellence in police duty, Detective Richard Halloran is hereby
commended and named Employee of the Month for December 2002.
Dennis
R. Mannix
Chief of Police |
