The father had then made his getaway in a car that had been stolen two miles away a few minutes before. A bank employee dashed out behind him and followed in a commandeered car.
After a few blocks, the employee saw the robber switch the stolen vehicles for a car that had several large antennas on the back. A check of people with amateur radio licenses showed only one person who owned a car of that description: it was Benjamin Paddock of Tucson.
Nobody was more surprised than Sheriff Waldon Burr of Tucson, Arizona, for Paddock had used his radio to assist the local search and rescue team. Paddock also let anyone who so desired get on his radio to contact relatives aboard.
And Paddock served as a volunteer special deputy with the Pima County Juvenile Probation Department, saying that his own troubles in his early years motivated him to assist what he called “wayward youths.”
“He bulged with sincerity,” Sheriff Burr later told a reporter.
