You smell like trouble
May 5th, 2008, 2:26 pm · Post a Comment · posted by mcazalas
May 4:
A deputy on the search for two suspects in a battery case sniffed them out in record time Sunday.
Deputy S. Bell started off following his common sense as he trailed the pair, but ended up following his nose.
Bell saw a man wanted in connection with a battery near a residence Sunday, but the man took off running before the deputy could get to him.
Bell left his vehicle and searched a neighbor’s backyard, but could not find the man. He then went to the door of the residence and knocked.
The second suspect in the battery answered, and was placed under arrest, but there was no sign of the first man Bell spotted.
Bell asked the man in custody - and his wife - if they knew where the other man was and both said no.
“They both agreed to allow me to look inside their home,” Bell wrote. “In one of the bedrooms I entered I could smell a strong presence of alcohol. I then found the suspect hiding behind the bed.”
He was placed under arrest.
