Crazy criminals
Every once in a while, some loon goes on a wacky crime spree in the area where I grew up, then gets written up in the paper. The articles are usually kind of long and hard to follow, so here are synopses of the latest weird tales.First, there's the high school teacher/baseball coach who allegedly robbed a convenience store (which happened to be near the high school) and pepper-sprayed the clerk after ordering her to the floor. He fled from cops who happened to be in the area, and in the process one of the police cars crashed into another car. The chase ended when the suspect crashed into a parked truck.
Then we have the parolee who stopped when cops pulled him over, then threw a beer can at a deputy and ran. The deputy and his police dog chased the guy, who ran down an embankment into the river. All three went in the water and were swept away by the current. The deputy got out, the dog and suspect went around a bend, and the dog later followed his handler's scent and caught up. The suspect hasn't been seen since, but a body was found in the water a week later.
Posted by Layla at 8:41 PM, September 26, 2005
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