GPS helps nab bank robbery suspect

A wild day on the streets of Daytona Beach after a robber grabbed a bag full of cash from a Daytona Beach bank and bolted. But the drama didn't end there! A whispered 9-1-1 call and a high-tech helped lead cops to their suspect.

This heist happened at the riverside bank right on Speedway Boulevard Next To Daytona State College and it did not take long for police to get a track on the robber thanks to a tiny electronic helper.

The robber hit the bank about 9:45 a.m. A teller says the guy came to the counter and told him: "I don't want to hurt anybody... I just need really need money."

The clerk gave him a bag of cash and the robber disappeared out the door.

Daytona Beach Police say Bobby Ray Earl is the robber and he never knew cops were tracking within minutes of the bank job. “Along with the money he was given a GPS tracking device," said Jimmy Flynt from the Daytona Beach Police Department.

A GPS device said the bag was near Halifax medical center. There a security guard called about a strange man on the phone in the emergency room.

Cops showed up and actually talked to ray. "One of the descriptions of the guy... had the guy have having... ah... like little... platts in his hair... well this guy was pretty much bald headed almost... real, real low haircut so... he was let go," said Flynt.

A few minutes later... Less than an hour after the robbery they tracked the bag to the neighborhood around Essex road and Madison Avenue.

Then they caught a break. Someone inside that house called 911 and said the robber is here.

Cops swarmed the place, went in and came back out with Bobby Ray Earl in cuffs.

Police still are not sure why the suspect did not have the bag of cash when they ran into him at the hospital or how and when he got it back but they say he showed them where it was hidden: inside a ceiling tile in the house on Madison Avenue.