Fisk called his wife to tell her he was stuck in traffic. She soon called back to tell him he was in the middle of the hunt for a bank robber. Police were getting information from a GPS device in the packet of stolen money and set up a roadblock.
Within minutes, Fisk saw a man walking with several police officers. The man - an FBI agent - was carrying a hand-held GPS tracking device.
Police - uniformed and plainclothes in cruisers and cars, and on motorcycles and bicycles - were watching occupants of the vehicles as the GPS tracking device was walked through the stopped cars.
Many of the officers had their hands on their holstered guns.
Fisk watched as police looked through the windows into his van, checked other cars, had people open doors and trunks and even had one man get out of his work truck, handcuff him and search his lunchbox before letting him go.
Court documents said Kenneth Maples told the teller: "This is a robbery. I want $10,000 to $15,000." Police reports did not mention whether he carried or showed a weapon.
He was given a bag containing $7,000 - and a Global Positioning System transmitter. Fisk was impressed by the GPS device.
"It was very precise," he said. "They knew (the suspect's vehicle) was in front because they kept hovering around the first 40 cars or so.
"They kept saying: 'The guy's here. I know he's here.' "
A minute or so later, the crowd of police went farther behind Fisk's van - and away from the suspect's truck - had a short discussion and then swarmed the pickup to arrest the two suspects.
"He was pretty calm," Fisk said of Kenneth Maples. "They took him to the median, and he sat there with resignation."
The couple is due in court today to answer to the charges.
that GPS transmitter ultimately led police directly to a white Ford pickup with the couple in it. Police found the stolen money in the Maples' truck.
