Last modified: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 2:21 AM EST Facing chargesJames Boyce, left, is arraigned in Attleboro District Court Monday on charges he grabbed $450 in cash from a cash register at the Stop & Shop supermarket on Pleasant Street in Attleboro Sunday night. At right is court officer Howie Werman. Duped by suspect BY DAVID LINTON SUN CHRONICLE STAFF ATTLEBORO - The man suspected of stealing almost $450 from the Super Stop & Shop store on Pleasant Street over the weekend told a female friend who gave him a ride to the store that he needed a pack of cigarettes. But when the 36-year-old woman saw James Boyce come running out of the store around 8 p.m. Sunday toward her car and trailed by two store employees, she feared a pack of trouble and locked her car doors, police said. Deterred by the locked doors, Boyce, 32, instead ran across the parking lot and Pleasant Street, allegedly losing a sneaker before he was arrested later, sweating and out of breath, at Bank and Peck streets by Patrolman William Monterroso. Boyce, of 29 John St., Apt. 1, in Attleboro, is now in jail after pleading innocent Monday in Attleboro District Court to charges of unarmed robbery and assault and battery. Judge James Sullivan ordered him held on $5,000 cash bail, but he is also wanted on a probation warrant out of Wrentham District Court where he is on probation for a third-offense drunken driving conviction. During a bail hearing, Prosecutor Jessica Lennon said police recovered a roll of bills totalling $447 from Boyce's right pants pocket and requested that he be held in jail on $10,000 cash. She said the cash found in Boyce's pocket was stolen from a register at the grocery store after the suspect allegedly pushed a female cashier out of the way and reached in the cash drawer for the money. His lawyer, Daniel Rich of Norton, described Boyce as a laid-off construction company supervisor who grew up in the Plainville area. Most of the crimes on his one-page record are alcohol related, Rich told the court. "I'm not so sure that the incident itself doesn't have something to do with alcohol," Rich said, adding that his client was cooperative with police. Police acknowledged the help provided by store employees and other witnesses. The woman who drove Boyce to the store also cooperated with police and corroborated information from witnesses. Boyce was charged after an investigation by Patrolman Dennis Fleming and Detective James Cote with the assistance of Monterroso and Steven Beaudet. He is due back in court Dec. 14.