Police seek shoplifting swimming suspect

[September 10, 2008]  PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Pierre police are looking for a shoplifting suspect who got away by swimming across a narrow part of the Missouri River. An assistant police chief said officers responded to the call Monday afternoon at a clothing store and found the suspect, who gave a false name.

When an officer tried to arrest the man, he took off running and eventually swam across the river to LaFramboise Island and couldn't be found.

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