The suspect believed to have stolen a sheriff’s office firearm has been arrested. Investigators also tracked down the gun and now the department has changed its policies to prevent a repeat of the crime.
On September 23 the gun was taken during a break-in of a personal vehicle owned by a Kalamazoo County sheriff’s deputy. The deputy was dining at a restaurant on Portage Street between Dorchester Avenue and Bloomfield Avenue with his family and had left his work rifle in his car.
A restaurant staff member witnessed the break in and told the deputy, according to the sheriff’s office. The deputy tried to chase down the suspect, seeing him run off with what looked to be the rifle-bag slung across their shoulders…