Dad is a fink

Facing a heroin possession charge, a father with a prior bank robbery conviction did what any other family-man felon would do — he ratted out his son and helped police set him up.

The son — James Adam Drown, 26, of Pembroke — was lured into a bank robbery scheme, his lawyer said during a hearing in U.S. District Court yesterday.

Police supplied the vehicles, gloves, a gun, and an undercover FBI agent drove the father and son around casing banks on the Seacoast, said the lawyer, Joseph Caulfield. All the time, Dad was wearing a wire, prosecutors acknowledge.

“Yet my client is charged with attempted bank robbery,” Caulfield said during a bail hearing. “This bizarre situation does not lead to my client being held.”

Drown was ordered to be held without bail until a yet-unscheduled plea hearing. Federal Magistrate James Muirhead said he was a danger to the community.

During the bail hearing yesterday, prosecutor Terry Ollila would not identify Drown’s father because of the ongoing investigation.

***What a great dad!!!