Reports help police catch suspect

A man who held a customer at knifepoint Friday morning while robbing a downtown Delaware bank was captured by police 10 minutes later after an alert parking-control employee spotted him and called for backup.

Police were called at 11: 18 a.m. to Chase Bank, 61 N. Sandusky St., where a man with a knife held a customer and demanded cash from a teller.

“He looks like he’s holding something to a woman’s head, asking them to give him money,” according to a 911 call made by a second customer, who escaped out a back door. “He had his hand around her neck.”

The caller said the man was dressed in black with a black ski mask.

After he was given an undisclosed amount of cash, the man freed the customer and fled.

That’s when his description was shared on police radios, including that of a city parking- control officer whose motorized buggy is equipped with a police radio.

“She was alert and listening to her radio, knew who they were looking for and said ‘Hey that looks like the guy right there,’” said Delaware Police Capt. Adam Moore.

She directed police to an area near Park Avenue and Franklin Street, where they arrested Jose Angel Santiago Cintron, 42, of 18 Muirwood Drive. He was charged with kidnapping and aggravated robbery.

Moore declined to say whether the suspect had a weapon or how much cash they recovered.