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05-17-12, 06:58 PM
Gilbert police: Man stops jogger in bicycle lane, tries to make 'citizen's arrest' (http://www.azcentral.com/community/gilbert/articles/2012/05/17/20120517gilbert-police-man-stops-jogger-tries-make-citizens-arrest.html)
I'm not an expert, but I think he did it wrong. I think the first element is a thing called a 'crime' has to be committed. But they did end up arresting a citizen so in the end it all worked out.
Calling the cops because a jogger is in the bike lane (unless he's dead in the bike lane) - pain in the neck caller who needs a hobby.
Calling the cops because you just made a citizens arrest at gunpoint of the jogger in the bike lane - this isn't the hobby he should have taken up.
I'm just wondering how many days in a row he called 911 to report the jogger with the follow-up being "Dispatched to investigate jogger in bike lane. Jogger must have run away. NFI." before he decided he needed to show the police that his jogger actually existed. lol.
BTW, I think I'd be pissed off for even getting a ticket for jogging in the bike lane, let alone arrested.
A man told Gilbert police that he was trying to make a "citizen's arrest'' in The Islands subdivision when he stopped a man for jogging in a bicycle lane.
But Karl Frost, 47, who identified himself as "Jack Frost'' when he called the Gilbert police dispatch center, was arrested instead on suspicion of unlawful imprisonment, disorderly conduct and assault after officers found he was carrying a loaded .40-caliber Glock handgun in his waistband.
Police are investigating whether Frost was legally carrying the gun. A police report said he has a prior felony arrest.
The jogger was identified in the report as a 52-year-old Chandler man who was running in a bicycle lane on Islands Drive West toward Warner Road shortly before 8 a.m. on Wednesday.
I'm not an expert, but I think he did it wrong. I think the first element is a thing called a 'crime' has to be committed. But they did end up arresting a citizen so in the end it all worked out.
Calling the cops because a jogger is in the bike lane (unless he's dead in the bike lane) - pain in the neck caller who needs a hobby.
Calling the cops because you just made a citizens arrest at gunpoint of the jogger in the bike lane - this isn't the hobby he should have taken up.
I'm just wondering how many days in a row he called 911 to report the jogger with the follow-up being "Dispatched to investigate jogger in bike lane. Jogger must have run away. NFI." before he decided he needed to show the police that his jogger actually existed. lol.
BTW, I think I'd be pissed off for even getting a ticket for jogging in the bike lane, let alone arrested.
A man told Gilbert police that he was trying to make a "citizen's arrest'' in The Islands subdivision when he stopped a man for jogging in a bicycle lane.
But Karl Frost, 47, who identified himself as "Jack Frost'' when he called the Gilbert police dispatch center, was arrested instead on suspicion of unlawful imprisonment, disorderly conduct and assault after officers found he was carrying a loaded .40-caliber Glock handgun in his waistband.
Police are investigating whether Frost was legally carrying the gun. A police report said he has a prior felony arrest.
The jogger was identified in the report as a 52-year-old Chandler man who was running in a bicycle lane on Islands Drive West toward Warner Road shortly before 8 a.m. on Wednesday.