Thursday, July 05, 2007

Jogger trips suspected wallet-snatcher   Send a link to a friend

[July 05, 2007]  FERNDALE, Mich.  (AP) -- The long arm of the law caught up to a suspected thief, but not without help from a jogger's well-placed foot.

The suspect allegedly stole a wallet from a 72-year-old woman Friday evening at a store in this Detroit suburb. He was running down busy Nine Mile Road with a store employee in pursuit when, police Detective John Thull said, "an unknown woman jogger stuck her foot (out) and tripped him.

"The suspect fell and threw the wallet to the ground and the jogger just kept on going. We never even got her name to thank her."

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The suspect got up, got on a bike and continued fleeing, but a woman in a car followed him. He pedaled several blocks before a police officer stopped him.

"We might not have caught this guy without the jogger's momentary intervention," Thull told The Daily Tribune of Royal Oak.

[Associated Press]

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