A Florida sheriff’s deputy was was in the right place at the right time to catch a suspect accused of stealing from a gas station while he was refueling his patrol vehicle.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office said Corporal Michael Stringer was pumping gas at the 7-Eleven on the 9400 block of SE Baseline Road in Belleview at around 9:45 p.m. on Saturday when a store clerk flagged him down to report that someone had just stolen cases of beer from the store.
It turns out Stringer’s dashboard camera recorded the suspect running from the store and entering a vehicle, which fled the scene. Stringer saw the vehicle leaving the parking lot and followed to conduct a traffic stop…