What would you do if you saw someone trying to steal your car? One Puyallup man jumped into action last week.
What would you do if you saw someone trying to steal your car? One Puyallup man jumped into action when he saw a thief trying to take the truck from his driveway last week.Smith caught the whole incident on video on his Ring surveillance camera. He said at night, he got a notification on his phone that someone was in his driveway, so he hopped out of bed and went to confront the person. He then saw a man trying to steal his truck. Smith approached the perpetrator who then ran to a getaway car.
“So, I think I already had it in my head that this was the way I wanted to respond to it. Because I didn’t want to happen to me. And I was tired of seeing all the notifications. And it happened to other people,” Smith said. Smith said the prowler got in the getaway car and yelled out “Do it again!” So, Smith created distance and took out his phone to get a picture of the license plate.Rantz said a juvenile was arrested in Federal Way in connection to the attempted vehicle theft over the weekend. Rantz then asked Smith what his interaction was like with the suspected juvenile.“As soon as I realized that I went to try to grab onto him and detain him and hold on to him and keep him in front of me.
“If I would have come down with a weapon, it could have been 2 on 1, I could have lost the weapon, they could have gained control of it, they could have stolen my weapon. And I could have been the one that ended up getting shot,” Smith explained. Smith said he didn’t understand what the teen had to gain but when the crime was committed it was “perfect timing.”“So these criminals are becoming more adaptive and realizing that the police aren’t out here patrolling the areas, they live in pretty much new development and they can come out and have free reign on whatever they do,” Smith added.
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