Channel 2 Action News is hearing the startling story of a woman who found a wanted bank robber asleep in her home in the middle of the night.
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Channel 2′s Tom Regan was live in Mountain Park, where Gwen Hatcher had been following the story of the massive search for suspected bank robber James Raborn for days.
Raborn was accused of robbing a bank, leading police on a chase and crashing his truck before running from the scene into a nearby neighborhood.
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Police said that while Hatcher was away early Wednesday, Raborn broke into her home through a window and hid in a home office. Hatcher came home and went to bed unaware that there was a fugitive inside her home.
Around midnight, she heard a noise and went to go check on her cats in her husband’s office. But when she tried to open the door, it was blocked.
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