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Thief gets caught in his own tracks
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Feb. 8, 2000 |
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The sudden snowfall closed schools, businesses and many roads in the Washington suburb, and most people spent their newfound free time sledding, holing up indoors or doing some good old-fashioned shoveling. Three Grinchlike young men, however, decided to use the downtime for practicing petty thievery. According to the Associated Press, the trio of supergeniuses crept up on a Reston resident as he was shoveling snow and thumped him on the head. Once the stunned man was down, they snatched his wallet and ran off. Into the freshly fallen snow. Where they left tracks. Police had no trouble following the hurly-burly footprints to a nearby
apartment, where they arrested a 20-year-old who was already wanted for a
previous robbery. They are now hot on the trail of the other two suspects.
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