Bel Air Bank Teller Charged In Home Invasion: Sheriff

BEL AIR, MD — A Bel Air man who works as a bank teller has been charged in the home invasion that injured two residents this week, according to officials. Investigators said one of the residents had withdrawn cash from the bank where the man worked.

Nathan Michael Newell, 19, of Northview Place in Bel Air, has been charged with home invasion, robbery, first and third-degree burglary, one count of first-degree assault and two counts of second-degree assault.

Authorities said they believe Newell was the person who rang the doorbell at a home on Still Pond Way Monday night, then forced his way in and assaulted the 78-year-old man who answered the door. After a 57-year-old woman who also lived at the home intervened, officials said the suspect ran upstairs and the woman left and called police from a neighbor's house. Deputies responded to the 1800 block of Still Pond Way at 8:25 p.m. for a reported home invasion.

By the time they arrived, officials said the suspect had left, so they used K-9 officers to canvass the area but did not find him.

Both residents were injured in the home invasion. Officials said the woman was treated at the scene, while the man was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and is expected to survive.

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One of the victims had taken out a large sum of money from a bank where Newell works as a teller, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office.

"Detectives gained information identifying a teller at the bank" as a potential suspect, the sheriff's office said in a statement.

Newell was arrested Wednesday at the bank, the sheriff's office reported Thursday.

He was taken to the Harford County Detention Center for processing.

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