Posted December 18, 2015 3:14 pm by Comments

By Bob Owens

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A man who owned a pawnshop and laundromat pulled his gun and confronted a pair of thieves attempting to break into a coin machine, triggering a wild turn of events that saw the business owner and another armed citizen holding the suspects and a third person at gunpoint until police arrived.

Three suspects are in custody Thursday night after two of them were stopped for allegedly trying to break into a coin machine at the Suds and Duds Laundromat.

Cedar City Police Sgt. Jimmy Roden said a man and woman had gone into the laundromat located in back of the Vault Pawn Shop at 200 North at approximately 4 p.m., when the owner, who was in the pawn shop watching a surveillance camera, witnessed what he believed to be the two suspects attempting to break into the coin machine using tools.

The owner went in back to the laundromat and allegedly brandished a firearm at the suspects, telling them to stop, Roden said. The male suspect then came at the owner and the owner fired his weapon into the wall, “reportedly as a warning shot,” Roden said in a news release.

Roden said the male suspect then overtook the owner and they …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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