Dee Brown, a member of the Boston...
Dee Brown, a member of the Boston Celtics, said he was held at gunpoint by several Wellesley, Mass., police officers who apparently thought he was a bank robbery suspect.
Brown told WCVB-TV in Boston he was sitting in his car with his fiancee, reading through mail, when police approached him and ordered him to get out and lie on the ground.
“I’m shocked . . . terrified,” Brown said.
Brown said he and his fiancee were considering buying a home in Wellesley, a wealthy suburb outside Boston. But Friday’s incident changed his mind.
A Wellesley police dispatcher, who declined to be named, said bank employees had called the bank because they were suspicious.
“There was just a misunderstanding. The bank employees thought it was somebody else,” he said.
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