According to Acklin, one of the two employees retrieved the money from the bushes.

Acklin said that while the employees held the suspect, he went into an office across from Byerly Hall and called the police.

But as he was being held, the suspect allegedely offered to return to the office from which he had stolen the money to apologize. The employees reportedly disregarded the request, but decided to take the suspect back to 1511 Mass. Ave. to wait for the police.

The employees freed the suspect from their grip to walk back, and the suspect allegedly began to flee.

According to Acklin, the suspect ran into the Cambridge Common.

Acklin said he again chased the suspect, and with the help of a bystander, apprehended him for a second time that day.

"It was really, really high tension," Acklin said.

However, once he was caught, Acklin said that the suspect did not put up a fight.

"He wasn't really a combative guy," he said.

While others held the suspect, Acklin went to Byerly Hall to again contact the police for help. According to Acklin, the officers from the HUPD and the Cambridge Police Department arrived about 10 minutes after his first call.

Upon arriving at the scene, the police patted down the suspect and arrested him. Acklin said that he did not see the police remove any weapons from the suspect.

For Acklin, stepping into this potentially dangerous situation was not a matter of thinking, he said.

"I did it instinctively," he said