Deputies: Armed homeowner stops burglary

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

CANDLER – Sheriff’s deputies say a 25-year-old Summerfield man accused of burglarizing a home didn’t get very far, as the homeowner retrieved his .45-caliber handgun and held the man at gunpoint until they arrived.

Calvin Crews told deputies on Wednesday he was at his residence in the 10000 block of Southeast 108th Terrace Road when he heard someone calling his name. Crews said he looked outside and saw 25-year-old James Lazarus Wayne Day running toward a truck, according to a Marion County Sheriff’s Office report.

Crews said he got his gun and returned to the window. He said Day drove the truck up to the front porch, ran inside the home, went to a bedroom and removed a five-gallon jug that was filled with about $600 in change.

Crews then held the man at gunpoint and called deputies, according to the report. When they arrived, Crews came out of the home with his gun and told authorities what had happened.


http://www.ocala.com/article/20090430/ARTICLES/904309974/1340/NEWS?Title=Deputies-Armed-homeowner-stops-burglary


More restraint shown by a law abiding gun owner.

David

[imdjh]

1. And people think Florida is just geezers playing shuffleboard and getting stoned. nt