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License helps man obtain weapon

Carolyn Hileman* | February 17, 2008 

BANGOR - Niall Clarke’s journey to a local bank, where he pointed a loaded gun at bank tellers and fled with more than $10,000 in cash, began with a chance encounter in a Boston bar with a Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles official on St. Patrick’s Day 2006. Robert O’Connell, the BMV’s director of licensing services, helped Clarke obtain a Maine driver’s license believing the Irishman was in the country illegally, court documents reveal. Clarke’s visa expired two weeks after he obtained a Maine driver’s license in April 2006. O’Connell did not know Clarke intended to use the driver’s license to buy a gun in Brewer and brandish it while robbing the Bank of America branch on Bangor Mall Boulevard on Oct. 4, 2006. Clarke was arrested on Interstate 95 moments after bank employees provided police with the license plate number of his getaway car.

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