oddly enough

oddly enough

Would-be NJ Samaritans restrain victim, help thief

PLAINFIELD, N.J.

Police say a thief got away after two good Samaritans grabbed the wrong person on a northern New Jersey street.

The Samaritans were driving down a street in Plainfield when they saw what appeared to be a man assaulting a woman early Monday.

But it turns out the man was walking down the street when he said the woman robbed him of about $400 in cash and a gold chain.

Public Safety Director Martin Hellwig tells the Courier News of Bridgewater the suspect ran off when the passing motorists intervened.

Investigators are using videotape to try to identify the suspect.

Stolen-car suspect found in western Pa. jail

WASHINGTON, Pa.

Police say they’ve found a stolen-car suspect in the last place they expected: a southwestern Pa. jail, using another name.

Canonsburg police tell the Observer-Reporter of Washington, Pa., they found 18-year-old Christopher Thomas on Monday after an anonymous tipster told them he’d already been arrested in a pizza-delivery robbery in another town.

Online court records don’t list an attorney for Thomas, who remained in the Washington County Jail on Tuesday. He’s been there since last Wednesday on charges of robbing the delivery driver in Washington, Pa.

But police in Canonsburg didn’t know that because Thomas identified himself as Tayshawn Wilson when he was first arrested.

Canonsburg police now have charged him with driving the stolen car and almost hitting three people with it when police chased him Aug. 11.

Associated Press