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PITTSBURG KS SEPT 29 2008

Kyle T. Greene

NTL. ASSOC. PRIVATE OFFICERS

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Two men and a juvenile were arrested Thursday after attempting to steal televisions from Wal-Mart.At about 12:57 p.m., Pittsburg Police Officers were dispatched to Wal-Mart, 2710 N. Broadway, in reference to three males shoplifting two carts full of flat-screen televisions. Store employees called 911 and confronted the suspects in the front of the store. As the first responding officer arrived on the scene, two of the suspects ran northbound.

The third suspect, Christopher W. Genoble, 20, Chanute, remained at the scene and was taken into custody.Wal-Mart employees pursued one of the suspects, later identified as Charles Bruce Jr., 24, Erie, who ran to Locke Supply, 202 E. 29th St. Bruce brandished a knife toward two Wal-Mart employees, then entered a Locke Supply one-ton delivery truck.

Bruce fled from Locke Supply in the truck and drove it east on 29th Street and then north on Broadway.A Frontenac officer assisted with the chase as it entered Frontenac city limits, and officers pursued the truck north on U.S. Highway 69 out of the Pittsburg city limits before turning west on Highway 47.At Highway 47 and 200th St., a Crawford County Deputy deployed stop sticks, causing a tire to deflate on the vehicle.

The pursuit continued to the east side of Girard, where a Girard Police Officer deployed another set of stop sticks, causing an additional tire to deflate.The pursuit continued through Girard west on Highway 47 where the Crawford County Sheriff’s Department and the Kansas Highway Patrol took over the chase. Near the Crawford County line, a third stop stick was deployed by a Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper, causing an additional tire to deflate.At the intersection of Highway 59 and Highway 47 the vehicle left the roadway and entered the ditch, causing the vehicle to become stuck.

Bruce was then placed under arrest. The driver’s side two rear tires were the only tires still inflated on the stolen truck.

The Pittsburg Police Department charged Bruce with felony theft, felony obstruction, two counts of aggravated assault, motor vehicle theft, felony fleeing and eluding, felony criminal damage and driving with a suspended driver’s license.

The Crawford County Sheriff’s Department will file additional charges against Bruce.The second suspect, a 17-year-old juvenile male from Chanute, was located hiding in a creek bed across the street from Locke Supply and was arrested on charges of felony theft, felony obstruction, and he had an outstanding juvenile pickup order.

He was processed by a juvenile intake officer and was taken to the juvenile detention center in Girard.Genoble was arrested with the charge of felony theft and was transported to the Crawford County Jail.

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