Would-be burglar in Colorado Springs tackled by soldier
A home burglar trying to make off with an Army rucksack in a garage was tackled by the sack’s owner — a soldier — held at gunpoint by a neighbor and then hogtied by the soldier before Colorado Springs police arrived.
The incident happened at 6 p.m. in the 3900 block of Leah Heights, in southeast Colorado Springs. Michael J. Wright, 35, was arrested on suspicion of burglary and theft.
Witnesses described the soldier as chasing the burglar, jumping on his back and then putting him in a headlock. A female neighbor held a gun on the burglar while the soldier tied him. When police arrived, they found other stolen items on the burglar, said Sgt. Jim Jeffcoat with the Colorado Springs Police Department.
Chaffee County Sheriff’s Deputy Kevin Everson, right, and other deputies walk out the Agnes Vaille Falls trail shortly after leaving the scene of a rock slide that killed five people Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, in Chaffee County, Colo. Deputies who reached the area rescued a teenage girl who suffered a broken leg but had to pull back after rocks kept falling from a cliff and a boulder field with rocks estimated at weighing more than 100 tons began shifting. Rescuers were to return to the site Wednesday. (AP Photo/P. Solomon Banda)