Armed husband stops suspected car thief

[alp227]

A suspected car thief was arrested this morning after the victim's husband chased and confronted him at gunpoint, Santa Rosa police said.

At 8:13 a.m., a woman called police to report her car had been stolen from the driveway of her home in the Coffey Park area of Santa Rosa when she had left it running to warm it up.

The woman's husband jumped into another car to look for the stolen vehicle, found it near Coffey Park and chased it, police said.

Outside the park, the husband blocked the stolen car's path and confronted the driver, police said. The suspect, Shawn Anthony Elder, a 34-year-old Santa Rosa transient, reportedly ran from the car and into the park as the husband chased him.

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[ileus]

1. No need to be rude, he was only trying to stay warm.

[SteveW]

2. "felon in possession of ammunition?" Working his way up? nt

[chrisa]

3. What the husband did was incredibly stupid.

It worked out in the end, but there's a million different things that could have happened that would not be in the husband's favor.

Leave the chasing to the police. Too much can go wrong when one person is chasing another, especially on foot.

With that being said, I'm glad they got their car back.