GREENFIELD, Ind. (AP) — Police investigating a home burglary
reported by an 89-year-old woman arrested her next-door neighbor after
following footprints in the snow to his house.
Maj. Derek Towle of
the Greenfield Police Department says the woman heard a noise in her
home early Tuesday and confronted a man. The suspect snatched her purse
before fleeing out the back door of her home about 20 miles east of
Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis Star reports (http://indy.st/1dLtSmT ) officers called to the
woman’s home spotted footprints in the snow
outside and followed them to a home where they found the missing purse
with its contents still inside.
Police arrested 23-year-old Andrew
M. Reeves, who was being held without bond on a burglary charge at the
Hancock County Jail. It wasn’t clear whether he has an attorney.
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Information from: The Indianapolis Star, http://www.indystar.com
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GREENFIELD, Ind. (AP) — Police investigating a home burglary
reported by an 89-year-old woman arrested her next-door neighbor after
following footprints in the snow to his house.
Maj. Derek Towle of
the Greenfield Police Department says the woman heard a noise in her
home early Tuesday and confronted a man. The suspect snatched her purse
before fleeing out the back door of her home about 20 miles east of
Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis Star reports (http://indy.st/1dLtSmT ) officers called to the
woman’s home spotted footprints in the snow
outside and followed them to a home where they found the missing purse
with its contents still inside.
Police arrested 23-year-old Andrew
M. Reeves, who was being held without bond on a burglary charge at the
Hancock County Jail. It wasn’t clear whether he has an attorney.
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Information from: The Indianapolis Star, http://www.indystar.com
Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights
reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or
redistributed.