Man in Wash. pushes stolen TV past police station

[December 29, 2010]  SEATTLE (AP) -- Prosecutors in Washington state say a man was arrested when he was caught wheeling a 50-inch television in a shopping cart right past a police station.

Seattlepi.com reports that a bystander called 911 to report that she saw a man grab the TV out of the back of a delivery truck, load it in the cart and start pushing it away.

An Auburn police officer heard dispatchers relay the call as he was pulling into the police station parking lot -- and then he saw the man, dressed entirely in camouflage, walking by with the cart.

Charging documents say that when the officer asked 22-year-old Johnathon D. Barnes what he was doing, he said he bought the TV from and friend -- and then he ran.

The officer caught up with Barnes and arrested him.

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Information from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, http://www.seattle-pi.com/

[Associated Press]

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