Sarasota FL- Army Dad Opens Up A Can Of Whoop Ass On Bank Robber

Iraq war veteran Army Staff Sgt. Eddie Peoples was home on leave, spending it with his family in Sarasota, Fla. Tuesday Eddie and his two boys ages 4-6 were in line at the bank, and found themselves in the middle of a bank robbery.
The gunman ordered everyone on the floor and threatened to kill anyone who didn’t comply. Staff Sgt. Eddie Peoples quickly hid his two son’s behind two chairs standing off to the side, to keep any attention or danger away from his children’s hiding spot.
As the bank robber was getting ready to flee, Eddie remembers the gunman saying something close too, “Don’t try anything or the kiddie will get it.”‘ That’s when the switch flipped on in the Staff Sgt’s head.
Peoples left his two son’s in the bank, and chased after the bank robber in the parking lot.  The robber got in his white van, and Eddie got into his car as well. The robber attempted to reverse out of the parking lot, but Eddie was using his vehicle pushing the van forward, so it couldn’t get away. The suspects tires wound up spinning in place.
The frustrated robber got out of his van, and banged on Peoples window, and tried to open the door. Peoples finally opened the door, and the robber put the pistol directly on the Staff Sgt’s forehead. Big mistake!
“When he put that gun in my face after I got out of the car, I did a wrist lock on him. Got him in a half Muay Thai clinch around the back of the neck. Brought him down to the ground.”
Eddie says his goal was to prevent the robber from fleeing the scene of the crime, until police had time to get there.  One police arrived, Staff Sgt. Eddie Peoples walked back into the bank to get his boys, when one of them asked :
“Did you kick that bad guy’s butt?” And I said, ‘Yeah, Daddy got him,’ and there were three dozen in there, and they started clapping and applauding and everything, so then I gave them all hugs.” 
The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office identified the bank robber as 34-year old Matthew Rogers, a homeless Sarasota man with a criminal history, including arrests for burglary, auto theft and reckless driving.