CALHOUN MEN ARRESTED FOR INVOLVEMENT IN ARNOLDSBURG BANK ROBBERY

(12/22/2008)

Beau Allen Collins (L) Richard Allen Starcher (R)

Two men have been arrested in Calhoun County for their alleged part in the robbery of the Calhoun Bank at Arnoldsburg on December 5.

Richard Allen Starcher, 29, of Spencer and Arnoldsburg and Beau Allen Collins, 26, of Arnoldsburg, have been charged with being accessory to a robbery, according to Central Regional Jail.

Their bond has been set at $75,000.

Both Starcher and Collins have a preliminary hearing before Calhoun magistrate Rick Postalwait Tuesday.

Twenty-year-old Darin Stephen McClain (left) of Parma, Ohio was arrested by Akron authorities for going to the bank and committing the hold-up.

McClain is to be extradited to Calhoun to face the charges.

The arrest warrant says that McClain got away with about $16,000, but Akron police indicated some of the money was recovered.

McClain went into Speedy Mart in Arnoldsburg requesting the cost of cigarettes, according to store employees, after which he walked to the nearby bank.

He was caught on video surveillance cameras at both businesses.

The criminal complaint says McClain "handed a teller...a note, which stated the demand for monies. This note also stated that the defendant had a gun and would kill the bank teller if the demands...were not met." The complaint appears to contradict an earlier report, indicating McClain entered the bank as opposed to approaching a drive-through window.

The bank teller complied with the demands of the note, "where the defendant further threatened the teller's life, expressing that the teller would have 30 seconds to comply or be killed."

The complaint says "identifying information was obtained by video, by the driver of the vehicle transporting the defendant to and from the bank location."

McClain was "also identified from photographs by persons knowing his identity and having contact with the defendant prior to and after the commission of this crime."

Police towed a van from the Arnoldsburg area following the robbery, a vehicle likely used in some manner in the robbery. That van was later released and returned to an Arnoldsburg resident.

Sources have indicated McClain was visiting with acquaintances in Arnoldsburg area when he committed the robbery.

McClain has a number of arrests related to drugs in Ohio.