aggressive shoplifter

A 31-year-old man was tased three times by Des Moines police officers before being taken into custody on April 17.

At 3:18 a.m., officers responded to a report of a shoplifiting at a 7-Eleven in the 2900 block of Kent-Des Moines Road.

Responding officers determined the suspect, who didn't respond to their verbal commands, was drunk.

After he was tased once, he walked towards the officers in an attempt to assault them. He was tased two more times before he finally submitted and was handcuffed.

Ride given, car stolen

On April 15 around 2:20 a.m., a man stopped at the 76 gas station in the 23800 block of Pacific Highway South to buy beer when a woman that he knew asked him for a ride to her boyfriend's house a few blocks away.

He drove her to the house, picked up the boyfriend and drove them both back to the gas station. The boyfriend, identified as "Bodine," asked to go to another location but the man told him this was the last stop.

Bodine allegedly told the driver not to reach for his keys and pulled something from his waist that looked like the barrel of a gun.

The victim told Bodine, "Do what you gotta do," and got out of his car. He watched the suspect and the girlfriend pull out and go west on South 240th Street.

The car was found by the victim's friend two days later, undamaged, in the 21800 block of 30th Avenue South in Des Moines. No weapons or contraband were found inside.

A Des Moines police officer driving by the car saw a man in the driver's seat get out and walk away from the car. When the man denied stealing the car, the officer asked the victim if he looked liked Bodine. The victim said no.

The man in the car told the officer it is common knowledge that crack users in the area drop off stolen cars and other crack users pick up these cars to drive.