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NEWS
| NOVEMBER 8, 2005
Crime
Burglary suspect flees, not caught
Police chased the man into nearby
neighborhood, left the scene without him.
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| The Shorthorn: Drew Campbell |
| Officer D. Rahman, left, uses
a leaf blower to push tear gas underneath a house Friday
afternoon. The officers were attempting to flush out a
person suspected of breaking into cars on UTA property. |
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By Heather
Ann White
The Shorthorn staff
A man suspected of trying to steal a car was chased off UTA property
Friday and cornered by Arlington police in a nearby neighborhood.
Civil engineering senior Tristan Eager said he was walking to class
when he heard someone shouting from a parking lot near Nedderman
Hall.
“I heard someone yell, ‘Get out of my car!’ and
I dropped my book bag and chased after him,” he said. “I
called the cops while I was chasing him.”
Eager said the subject was a short, Hispanic male wearing a blue
shirt and denim jeans possibly and carrying a hammer. Eager said
the subject began to run north, to a residence at 210 N. Oak St.,
where he hid, and police surrounded the house.
Photography junior Jennifer Hurley, a resident of Oak Street, said
she heard commotion outside her house. Hurley, whose backyard is
adjacent to 210 N. Oak St., said she went outside to see about 10
officers who told her to get back inside her home and lock her door.
She said the subject went through her backyard to get under her
neighbor’s house.
“He went up to my dogs, and they licked him,” she said.
“I think I need new dogs.”
Hurley said police were there for more than an hour. She said officers
threatened the man with police dogs and with tear gas twice before
releasing tear gas under the house through a neighbor’s leaf
blower.
Officer J. W. Albritton said police received a call shortly before
11 a.m. about a man who was trying to steal cars from a UTA parking
lot. Albritton said that when police arrived at the house, the suspect
seemed winded, and they thought he might have crawled under the
house.
“We have to act like he is under the house,” he said.
“We’ve been here at least an hour. We’re using
a little creativity here with the tear gas.”
After almost two hours of releasing tear gas into a pipe under the
house, officers left the scene without the suspect.
There was no police report filed with the UTA Police Department
or Arlington police.
CORRECTION
In this story, Jennifer Hurley should have been
identified as a journalism junior.
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