stevethrower
03-24-2008, 10:04 AM
It sounds like a scene out of "Wayne's World" or "Tommy Boy," but police chased a doughnut delivery truck across Benton and Tama counties Thursday at speeds of up to 100 mph after the vehicle was reported stolen in Rock Island, Ill.
Sure enough, the nine police officers from four jurisdictions caught up with the doughnuts in the parking lot of a Hardee's restaurant in Toledo. There they arrested Frank Arthur Alvarado, 46, of Moline, Ill. Police said the truck had been stolen from Trinity Medical Hospital-West in Rock Island, where Alvarado was a patient.
The police-chasing-doughnuts angle sounds like fodder for Letterman and Leno, and Assistant Tama County Attorney Richard Vander Mey couldn't resist noting in a press release that "what strikes me as a bit out of the ordinary in this case is the number of officers who were able to respond. I don't know whether the fact that the stolen vehicle contained doughnuts has anything to do with that."
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Sure enough, the nine police officers from four jurisdictions caught up with the doughnuts in the parking lot of a Hardee's restaurant in Toledo. There they arrested Frank Arthur Alvarado, 46, of Moline, Ill. Police said the truck had been stolen from Trinity Medical Hospital-West in Rock Island, where Alvarado was a patient.
The police-chasing-doughnuts angle sounds like fodder for Letterman and Leno, and Assistant Tama County Attorney Richard Vander Mey couldn't resist noting in a press release that "what strikes me as a bit out of the ordinary in this case is the number of officers who were able to respond. I don't know whether the fact that the stolen vehicle contained doughnuts has anything to do with that."
More (http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080321/NEWS/803210356)
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Hell of a job Lou...