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Citizen Makes Arrest, Gets Arrested
Police Say Man Identified Himself As An Officer
Frank Heinz, Convergence Editor
POSTED: 12:03 p.m. CST March 6, 2003
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Citizen's arrest has taken on new meaning for a suburban Dallas man.
Dallas police say the 44-year-old Southlake man watched from his van early Tuesday as a man threw a brick through a restaurant's glass door and started grabbing items.
Police say the witness was wearing a police raid jacket and bulletproof vest and armed with a gun, plastic handcuffs and pepper spray and that he identified himself as a cop while pointing his gun at the suspect.
Police say that when the burglary suspect dropped to the ground, the witness put his knee in the suspect's back, sprayed him with pepper spray and put him in cuffs.
Arriving police officers arrested both the 36-year-old burglary suspect and the witness, who they said was held on suspicion of falsely identifying himself as a police officer.
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oops! was he also carrying a briefcase lined with kevlar and ceramic plates? Mall ninja alert!!
by the way, what's a convergence editor?
Police Say Man Identified Himself As An Officer
Frank Heinz, Convergence Editor
POSTED: 12:03 p.m. CST March 6, 2003
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Citizen's arrest has taken on new meaning for a suburban Dallas man.
Dallas police say the 44-year-old Southlake man watched from his van early Tuesday as a man threw a brick through a restaurant's glass door and started grabbing items.
Police say the witness was wearing a police raid jacket and bulletproof vest and armed with a gun, plastic handcuffs and pepper spray and that he identified himself as a cop while pointing his gun at the suspect.
Police say that when the burglary suspect dropped to the ground, the witness put his knee in the suspect's back, sprayed him with pepper spray and put him in cuffs.
Arriving police officers arrested both the 36-year-old burglary suspect and the witness, who they said was held on suspicion of falsely identifying himself as a police officer.
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oops! was he also carrying a briefcase lined with kevlar and ceramic plates? Mall ninja alert!!
by the way, what's a convergence editor?