An Arresting Development

It was a make-my-day moment for Deputy Ashley English when her dispatcher sounded the alert.

Conducting speed enforcement at Galena, she had pulled over a car for going 47 in a 25 miles per hour zone.

Then the Kent County Sheriff’s Office broadcast an alert for an attempted armed robbery that had just occurred at the Galena pharmacy.

“The suspect and the vehicle fit the description of the car she had stopped,” reports Sheriff John Price. “The guy was taken into custody without incident.”

Stephen Paul Termine, 35, of Elkton, was charged with attempted first degree robbery.

According to the sheriff, the suspect approached the pharmacist, and then, “as a result of the conversation,” the man fled from the store. “Once outside he pulled a 5-inch knife from his pocket.”

Sheriff Price declined to say what it was the pharmacist might have said that made the man run. But he said, “The phone lines had been cut prior to the attempt. There is other evidence I can’t comment on that indicate he was going to rob the store.”

Termine was held at the Kent County Detention Center on $100,000 bond.