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Accused shoplifter loses steam in chase
Mon Nov 18, 4:57 PM ET
By Hozaifa Cassubhai, Court TV
WINFIELD, Kan. (Court TV) — A youth suspected of shoplifting at JC Penney last month was arrested after he grew fatigued during a foot chase.
His pursuers were none other than the Southwestern College men's cross-country team, the winner of 22 consecutive championship titles in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference.
The teenager, whose name and age were not released, ran into the group of runners as he sprinted around a corner shortly after stealing from the Winfield Plaza shopping center on Oct. 28, police said. The team routinely warms up around the complex.
All-American runner Nathaniel Wheatley said the boy appeared nervous and scared, but wasn't hurt and ran away. But moments later, when someone on a sidewalk informed the runners that the boy was believed to be a shoplifter, the cross-country team split into groups to chase after him.
The suspected thief eventually surrendered his backpack as the runners caught up to him. Thinking the stolen goods were inside, the team took the backpack to the store. They were surprised to learn, however, that the stolen items were the shoes that the suspect was wearing. The teen had taken off his old shoes in the store and replaced them with new shoes in the shoebox, according to a Winfield police department spokesman.
The backpack contained schoolwork and a cellular phone, however, which led police to his home and his eventual arrest.
