Friday morning feel good stories
From TULSA COUNTY, OK
The homeowner told deputies he was alerted by movement on his security cameras and saw two men trying to break into his storage unit with a blow torch. The homeowner ran out and yelled at the men. He noticed one of the suspects had a gun on them, so he fired shots at them.
Deputies say the suspects tried to escape in a stolen vehicle, but the homeowner blew out one of the tires. The suspects got out of the vehicle and ran away.
TCSO says the homeowner thinks he shot one of the men.
From COOPER CITY, FL
Cooper City Woman Chases, Shoots At Car Burglars. Ring video shows a shadowy figure trying to get into a car in Cooper City then running off. Moments later that person may have tried again, choosing the wrong house. He was confronted by a federal agent with Customs and border protection — and she was armed.
“I just woke up to some sounds,” said neighbor Laura Cook, “I didn’t know what a gunshot sounded like, it was just 3 quick pops and it thought I was dreaming it.”
It was no dream. BSO tells us the federal agent and suspect exchanged gunfire. “After 5am a woman was exiting her home when she encountered a car burglar, she interrupted a car burglary,” explained BSO Spokeswoman Joy Oglesby. “There was a brief foot chase and the suspect turned and shot at her, she returned fire.”
Deputies took someone into custody.
From Fountain, CO
Police said an armed citizen stopped a knife-welding Mexican National on Monday who threatened a Greyhound busload of passengers and caused the bus to crash.
The Gazette identifies the Mexican National as 47-year-old Edmundo Arellanes-Audelo and indicates the bus crashed in Fountain, Colorado.
The Denver Post quotes Fountain Police saying, “[Arellanes-Audelo] gained access into the secured area of the bus and attempted to attack the driver while purposely grabbing the steering wheel.” The crash followed, after which Arellanes-Audelo exited through one of the bus windows in an attempt to escape.
He was confronted by an armed citizen who ordered him to drop the knife. Arellanes-Audelo complied and the citizen held him at gunpoint until the police arrived.
Passengers reported only minor injuries from the crash.
Arellanes-Audelo is facing “charges of felony menacing with a weapon, assault, reckless endangerment, felony criminal mischief and hindering public transportation.”
Category: Feel Good Stories
Lived in Fountain, CO for all the time I pulled duty at Carson. This crash probably happened over at the Tomahawk Truck Stop where the bus stop was (still is?). Can’t really tell as the link provided which should go to the Colo Spgs Gazette goes to the Cooper City, Floriduh link.
Anyway, spinning the Whiz Wheel™® reveals that:
Edmundo Arellanes-Audelo (DAM*) 33 x 4 = 132
*Dumb Ass Move
Claw, I spent some time in the Mountain, I love Manitou Springs! I still go back there when I have a chance. I do miss the great fishing in Colorado!
Someone should have shot the illegal bastard right in the head! imho
“a knife-welding Mexican National”
aka murdering illegal alien.
Separated from the parents. Triggered by the arrest of cousin in Iowa.
Deputies took someone into custody…. yeah, that is some in-depth precision reportage.
Exactly! We can only hope that the person in custody is not the Federal Agent, but we will never know now.
Car burglary: for Pete’s sake, lock your stupid car doors, stupid!!
Why do people think they don’t have to do that? Is it that ‘I’m a good person, why would he steal my car?’ mentality?
Is it safe to say that the car alarm didn’t go off as it should have?
I’m mystified regarding the motive for attacking a Greyhound bus driver. Must be some quirk in the Mexican National’s briches.