Burt LaPeer is an Australian Cattle dog and he knows a criminal when he sees one. He can't really run a computer however. He doesn't like mice.
Scott LaPeer, a Lowman Beach resident, reports that this evening he had an unexpected encounter with crime that finally resulted in an arrest.
"My dog Burt and I came home," LaPeer said," around 7:30 and I came in the house and Burt went out in the yard. I threw a TV dinner in the microwave and fired up the computer and I heard some barking going on and I looked up. There's some dude standing inside my yard and my dog's going ballistic at him and I was dumbfounded there's this guy in my yard. So I walk outside and said, 'Hey, what are you doing?' and he said,
'I'm sorry, I was just trying to find a shortcut to the water.' (...) but he was going the opposite direction from the water and he was wet, wearing a white t-shirt and some baggy pants that were really wet. He was hiding something under the front of his shirt. He never turned directly to me. He walked up out of the driveway and I didn't see him again. I came back inside and called the police.
(A week ago Tuesday my neighbor had someone come in their yard and steal their bike.)
So the police showed up ten minutes later. So my neighbor came over and said he'd seen cops in the area fifteen minutes before and wondered if they were looking for the same guy. Sure enough, there had been a report of burglaries in the neighborhood and by the description I gave them, a Hispanic male with dark hair, moustache and white T-Shirt matched. So the cops left and I turned on the scanner on the internet and 20 minutes later there's a call out, up by the tennis courts (near Lincoln Park) of possible shots fired, which turned out to not be true. But they caught up with the suspect, tasered him, captured him and they came back down and got me and Burt and we went for a cop car ride. We made the I.D up at the tennis courts.
It was the same guy. He was quite a bit muddier. Apparently there was another call about a burglary suspect in the area as well. The police said he was very well known to them, that he had resisted arrest and that's why he was tasered."
LaPeer's dog Burt, an Australian Cattle Dog, according to LaPeer stopped the suspect long enough to get his owner's attention so he could come out and see the person to later make a positive I.D.
Burt actually has his own Facebook page.
Apparently It pays to own a smart dog.
