Police accuse bank robbery suspect of gobbling up note (with dashcam video) 
 
 Police accuse bank robbery suspect of gobbling up note (with dashcam video) 
 
 By Gina Mace 
 
 Special to the Beacon Journal 
 
 Police believe they have their man. 
 
 But they fear their suspect in a bank robbery may have eaten some of the evidence — the note handed to a Streetsboro bank teller demanding cash — while he was handcuffed and leaning over the hood of a police cruiser. 
 
 Twinsburg police Patrolman Daniel Biada said a dash cam video of Thursday's arrest of John H. Ford, 35, of Cleveland, shows Ford gobbling a piece of paper while officers searched his pockets. 
 
 ''As we're searching him, officers are removing items and throwing them on the cruiser [hood],'' Biada said. ''We're searching him for weapons. We're not looking at his head.'' 
 
 The whereabouts of the note demanding money came into question after Biada was taken into custody and Streetsboro investigators asked whether officers had found the piece of paper. 
 
 Twinsburg police reviewed the images captured on camera and said they observed Ford leaning over to eat something off the hood of the cruiser. 
 
 ''He grabbed it in his mouth, just like Pacman,'' Biada said. ''He just ate it right there.'' 
 
 Authorities said they found a .38-caliber pistol on the driver's side floor of Ford's car and a wad of cash covered in red ink on the passenger side of the vehicle. 
 
 Ford is also a suspect in bank robberies in Stow and Akron. 
 
 In the Streetsboro case, a man walked into the FirstMerit branch on state Route 14 around 10 a.m. and handed a teller a note that demanded money. The robber did not produce a gun inside of the bank. 
 
 Witnesses say he fled in a dark Ford Escort. 
 
 Twinsburg police stopped Ford, who was driving a black Ford Escort, on Interstate 480 shortly after the robbery was reported and turned him over to Streetsboro police. ||||| * This is going to be the funniest thing you see all day. [Legal Blog Watch via The Volokh Conspiracy] 
 
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– It was almost a good idea. Above the Law takes note of a video making the rounds of a bank robbery suspect in Ohio. When an officer finds the alleged note to the teller and dumps it on the hood of the cruiser, the man eats it without the cops noticing. Too bad for him, a dashboard cam captured it all. ''He grabbed it in his mouth, just like Pacman,'' an officer tells the Akron Beacon Journal. ''He just ate it right there.'' Lucky for police, they also found a pistol and ink-stained cash in the suspect's car.