Alleged Littleton bank robber hides across street

By Lisa Redmond, lredmond@lowellsun.com

Updated:
03/28/2013 06:34:37 AM EDT

WOBURN -- A 25-year-old Littleton man is being held on $10,000 cash bail after Littleton police say he robbed the Northern Bank & Trust and then decided to hide from the police at another bank across the street.

Shortly after the 11:30 a.m. Jan. 15 robbery of the Great Road bank, police say a bank employee called police to say Grannis was running across the street. It took minutes for Littleton police to corner Grannis inside Citizens Bank.

Prosecutor Carrie Spiros alleges that Grannis, of 4 Cedar Road, allegedly handed a teller at Northern Bank a note demanding cash. At the time of the emergency call, two officers were working a detail on Great Road, a short distance away. Two more officers were working a routine patrol nearby.

In Middlesex Superior Court on Wednesday, Grannis pleaded not guilty to charges of unarmed robbery, intimidation of a witness and resisting arrest.

His next court date is a pretrial conference on April 9.

Grannis is no stranger to the law.

In August 2005, he was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and armed robbery after he and another man stabbed a 15-year-old boy over $40 at Father McGuire Park in Lowell. Grannis, 17 at the time, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison followed by three years probation.

In June 2008, Grannis was charged with robbery, conduct after an accident, first-degree assault, resisting arrest, negligent driving and theft by unauthorized taking following an attempted house burglary in Windham, N.

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H. Reports indicate Grannis, then 20, ran down a pedestrian who had tried to stop him and two other Littleton teens after they broke into a home on Lowell Road.

In September 2008, Grannis was indicted by a Rockingham County Superior Court grand jury on charges of second-degree assault, reckless conduct, resisting arrest, attempted theft and robbery.

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