Burglar subdued by police dog
February 18th, 2009 | by admin |Authorities took a bite out of crime — literally — on Tuesday when a burglar needed stitches after being subdued by a police dog.
The 19-year-old man was one of two men arrested inside a house in the 400 block of North Volutsia by officers responding to a burglary report.
A woman who was visiting her mother in the 500 block of North Estelle shortly after 9:30 a.m. noticed two strangers go into her home across the street. She called 911, and an officer arrived to see the men leave the house.
They went down the block and crossed over to Volutsia, where the officer saw them climb through a window of a house, police said. More law enforcement officers arrived, including a sheriffs officer with Rommel, a police dog.
The officers went into the house, and when the 19-year-old man refused to surrender Rommel was ordered to subdue him.
The man received several dog bites as he fought with the dog, police said, and he was taken to a local hospital for medical attention prior to being booked into the Sedgwick County Jail.
The other man surrendered uneventfully.
Officers recovered several items stolen from the womans house on Estelle, police said.