Armed citizen helps nab wanted fugitive

By Jennifer Cruz

Charles Belcher holds wanted fugitive Christopher Cravets at gunpoint while waiting for deputies to arrive. (Photo: WLTX)
South Carolina authorities credit a legally armed citizen for helping to catch a wanted fugitive outside of a home in Kershaw County last week.
Christopher Alexander Cravets, 21, along with a second suspect, Cody Gene Jackson, 26, have been on the run since a violent armed robbery on Aug. 18 in which a female victim was pistol whipped, according to the Kershaw County Sheriff’s Office.
When authorities tracked down the suspects at a Kershaw County home Tuesday, both men tried to flee on foot. Jackson only got few hundred yards before a deputy caught up him, but Cravets managed to escape, prompting an hours-long manhunt, which included police dogs and helicopters.
Sheriff’s deputies searched the area and warned residents, including Charles Belcher and his girlfriend, that a dangerous fugitive was on the loose. Belcher went to his truck, grabbed his gun and then returned to his house.
Belcher said it was only about two minutes after the deputies left when he went outside to check the cars on the property and found Cravets in the back seat of an SUV. Reporters with local media station WLTX happened

Source: Guns.com