The robbery suspect from Low Bob’s Discount Tobacco was caught at 9:30 a.m. Monday. The suspect, Nathan Callahan, was stopped and arrested by Indiana State Police near Evansville, Indiana.
Callahan, 36, confessed to robbing Low Bob’s on Sunday when speaking to Bloomington Police Department detectives. When police searched Callahan’s home, they found that he had not used a real handgun but rather a ball bearing gun to hold up Low Bob’s.
The BB gun was found in Callahan’s residence in Solsberry, Indiana.
Callahan said he was addicted to oxycodone and needed the money from the robbery to purchase more of the prescription drug.
BPD received additional information on Callahan when his brother, Eric Callahan, called in to tell police about the robbery. BPD Capt. Steve Kellams said Eric thought his brother was suicidal during the call and soon after called BPD.
BPD pushed the additional information on Callahan out to other law enforcement agencies who helped locate him.
ISP located his 2000 white Jeep Cherokee near Evansville, pulled him over and placed him under arrest without incident.
BPD is unsure exactly how much was taken from Low Bob’s, but they recovered $109 dollars that was with Callahan, which supposedly belongs to the store.
Dominick Jean
