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theweaselkingFleeing shopfliter captured by valiant, juicy meat.
In an epic effort to escape after being caught shoplifting at a Slidell supermarket early Wednesday, police said, a man climbed above the store's false ceiling and raced around looking for a way out as police officers tracked him from the floor. The man scrambled along a maze of steel beams supporting the ceiling, slipping occasionally and punching holes in the ceiling tiles with his feet before meeting his fate above the deli section. He crashed through the ceiling and landed in an open meat case, where a police dog named Major latched onto his leg, dutifully ignoring all the juicy T-bones and rump roasts.
It all started Wednesday shortly before 1 a.m. when employees were closing the Winn-Dixie at 3030 Pontchartrain Drive. The employees had seen the last customer take several items from the shelves, but the man was empty-handed as he walked to the front of the store to leave, Captain Rob Callahan said. When the employees asked him what happened to the items, the man, later identified as Devyn Coleman, 19, of Slidell, bolted and ran face-first into an automatic door that did not open because it had been locked, police said.
Callahan credited the police dog with staying focused on his job when Coleman fell into the meat, leapt to his feet and started running in the case, stepping on the meat as he went. "With all those steaks and hamburgers and hot dogs, that dog must have felt like he was in canine heaven," he said. "But he did what he was trained to do and clamped down on the suspect's right leg instead of a mouthwatering T-bone."
"All of that meat is probably spoiled, too," Callahan said. "If they have to throw it away, maybe they could give Major a little filet mignon as a reward. He certainly earned it."
In an epic effort to escape after being caught shoplifting at a Slidell supermarket early Wednesday, police said, a man climbed above the store's false ceiling and raced around looking for a way out as police officers tracked him from the floor. The man scrambled along a maze of steel beams supporting the ceiling, slipping occasionally and punching holes in the ceiling tiles with his feet before meeting his fate above the deli section. He crashed through the ceiling and landed in an open meat case, where a police dog named Major latched onto his leg, dutifully ignoring all the juicy T-bones and rump roasts.
It all started Wednesday shortly before 1 a.m. when employees were closing the Winn-Dixie at 3030 Pontchartrain Drive. The employees had seen the last customer take several items from the shelves, but the man was empty-handed as he walked to the front of the store to leave, Captain Rob Callahan said. When the employees asked him what happened to the items, the man, later identified as Devyn Coleman, 19, of Slidell, bolted and ran face-first into an automatic door that did not open because it had been locked, police said.
Callahan credited the police dog with staying focused on his job when Coleman fell into the meat, leapt to his feet and started running in the case, stepping on the meat as he went. "With all those steaks and hamburgers and hot dogs, that dog must have felt like he was in canine heaven," he said. "But he did what he was trained to do and clamped down on the suspect's right leg instead of a mouthwatering T-bone."
"All of that meat is probably spoiled, too," Callahan said. "If they have to throw it away, maybe they could give Major a little filet mignon as a reward. He certainly earned it."