An officer pursued three males who reportedly robbed a man but then could not find the trio or the man who initially flagged down a patrol car.
An officer drove southbound along 64th Avenue South near Meeker Street at about 1:40 a.m. Dec. 4 when a shirtless man ran out in the street in front of the patrol car waving his arms for the car to stop, according to the police report.
The man had saliva streaming down the sides of his mouth and his face looked swollen, the officer noted.
“They just tried to rob me,” the man said to the officer. “They beat me up.”
The man pointed toward the west side of 64th Avenue where three males stood. “That is them,” the man said. “See them? It’s those three.”
All three took off running after the officer shined his spotlight toward them.
The officer drove his car toward the three, but two ran through a field and one ran toward an apartment complex parking lot. A search of the area did not find any of them.
When the officer returned to where he had agreed to meet the man who reported the robbery, the man was gone. A search for the man came up empty.
Police closed the case because the man had left and a lack of description of the three males who ran away.
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