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Citizen helps nap burglary suspect
Updated: Friday, 09 Dec 2011, 6:15 PM EST
Published : Friday, 09 Dec 2011, 6:15 PM EST
EATON, Ohio (WDTN) - Preble County deputies credit an alert citizen with helping them nab a burglary suspect.
Shawn Whitaker is now behind bars.
Deputies say the 27-year old was spotted running away from a home on US 35 just west of West Alexandria.
He was running back to the Deerfield Inn across the street where he had a room.
Deputies were tipped that someone picked him up and drove him into Eaton.
Eaton police caught up to him at a laundromat.
Preble County Sheriff Mike Simpson says Whitaker admitted to stealing to support his heroin habit.
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