Baltimore police find suspect hiding in ceiling crawl space of vacant house

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — A man tried to evade arrest by hiding from Baltimore police inside the crawl space above the ceiling of a vacant house on Monday.

Police had been looking for Justin Lewis, 29, after he was caught trying to steal merchandise from the Dollar General in the 2500 block of Greenmount Avenue earlier that morning, according to authorities.

The officer who was assigned to investigate the theft had approached Lewis and ordered him to remove the merchandise from his clothing. Court records describe how Lewis complied with the officer’s directive. He pulled three bottles of Lysol out of his pants and dropped the case of soap that he had hidden in his jacket…

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