Tracy CA. Dec. 15, 2007
Tracy police arrested a suspected shoplifter on the 400 block of 23rd Street near Bessie Avenue after a K-9 unit cornered him in a backyard shed. The man was taken to Sutter Tracy Community Hospital for treatment of dog bite wounds before he was booked into San Joaquin County Jail in French Camp on suspicion of theft, escape from police custody, resisting arrest and parole violation.
Mark Duxbury said the man, whose name was not available Thursday afternoon, was reportedly caught shoplifting at Target in West Valley Mall earlier in the afternoon. The arresting officer was on the way back to police headquarters to book the man shortly before 2 p.m. when the suspect apparently got one of his hands free from his restraints. Duxbury said it’s unclear whether he slipped his hand through the cuff or managed to pick the lock, but the officer noticed the man was doing something suspicious and pulled over the patrol car on the 2000 block of North Tracy Boulevard. The officer was about to cuff the man again when he bolted from the patrol car and ran east through Tracy Ball Park. Police last saw him on the 400 block of West 22nd Street. At that point, police believed he might have hopped into a car driven by another person, but officers continued to search the neighborhood. Duxbury said a neighbor saw the man jump a fence into another backyard. The person flagged down officers, who checked the house and found nobody home. They then checked the backyard, where a police dog alerted officers to someone in a shed. The man still resisted arrest. “He knocked a hole in the roof trying to get away,” Duxbury said, adding that the police dog stopped the man, and officers took him into custody.
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