Toledo gun owner helps police track down robbery suspect

by Chad D. Baus

WUPW, Toledo's Fox News affiliate, is reporting that a Toledo gun owner helped Toledo police catch a robbery suspect in broad daylight late last week.

From the article:

Toledo Police and Monroe County deputies scoured neighborhoods north of Alexis Road for 2 hours Thursday morning. Police say the suspect was originally from the area and knew the terrain well allowing him to duck in and out of backyards along both sides of the state line.

The three men who caught up with the suspect say he ditched a backpack full of cash and a gun behind a shed shortly before they encountered him in a quiet neighborhood near Secor Road.

The men say the suspect grabbed a shovel and one neighbor countered with a rake while a second pulled a gun.

They say the suspect dropped the shovel and ran.

The three neighbors stayed in pursuit, one by foot, two by car, and later helped Police corner the suspect. A young white male wearing a dirty white t-shirt/wife beater was apprehended in the parking lot of Maple Grove Golf Club on Secor.

A Bedford Township man now faces armed robbery charges for holding up an insurance agency in Monroe County Michigan.

Just three days before this incident, a Toledo spokesperson made news when he said that defending oneself during an armed robbery is "just really not worth it." Despite the extremely unsafe advice of this one TPD bureaucrat, there are no doubt some Toledo police officers who are very thankful today for the assistance of this armed citizen.

Chad D. Baus is the Buckeye Firearms Association Vice Chairman.