Three men were arrested burglarizing vehicles in a West University neighborhood.
Police caught the three suspects, but they were all immeditately freed because the Harris County Sheriff’s Office would not accept them because they had “no prior arrests”.
From the West University Police Department: (our emphasis added)
“On Tuesday April 28, officers, after receiving a call from a vigilant citizen, apprehended three suspects that had been burglarizing vehicles in the area of the 4200 block of Tennyson. The District Attorney’s Office was contacted and two counts of Burglary of Motor Vehicles (BMV) were accepted on all three suspects. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office Joint Processing Center was also contacted and West U officers were advised that the Sheriff’s Office would not accept the suspects due to the suspects having no prior arrests for BMV. As a result of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office refusal to accept the suspects, West U Officers had no choice but to release the suspects from the scene.”
As the Czar said on the show yesterday, “you know they weren’t caught on the first car they were busted in. What about all the damage they’ve just done...it probably wasn’t 5-minutes later busting another windows, laughing all the way.”