Getaway Glitch
Montgomery, Ala., cab driver Teddy Lawly likes to listen to a police scanner radio on the job. “I write down the description of suspects, because I ride all over town and I’m on the lookout for them,” he says. Just after he heard a broadcast about a nearby drug store robbery, a man jumped in his cab. “I knew who he was,” Lawly said later. “There were two patrol cars within about 20 feet of me, so I was never scared.” Lawly pulled up to the cops and told them he had their suspect, and Kevin Bradley Nelson, 35, was arrested. In addition to robbery, Nelson was charged with escape from Autauga Metro Jail, where he was serving time for multiple traffic violations. He only had one day left on his sentence there. (Montgomery Advertiser) ...Multiple traffic violations? Now we know why he had to take a cab.
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