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Would-be burglars flee Terrell police

Mar 28, 2008

Suspects in an attempted robbery at the La Azteca Meat Market were lost Friday morning after their pickup truck rammed a police car and sped from the scene.

Police were called shortly before 6 a.m. Friday about a possible burglary at the Azteca Market at 300 N. Rockwall. The first police car on the scene was rammed by a stolen 1986 Chevrolet pickup. The officer was not injured.

The pickup sped off and police chased. The pickup driver lost control and wrecked in the 400 block of FM 986, near the water tower. At least two suspects ran from the scene and were lost in the woods.

Officers from Terrell, Forney and the Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office searched on foot and all-terrain vehicles. A Department of Public Safety helicopter participated in the search.

One man, found in the woods, was being held for questioning, Capt. Arley Sansom said.

Because the area where the suspects were lost was near the high school and an elementary school, Superintendent Kelly Rodgers said he was having principals lock outside doors and be on heightened alert, Capt. Sansom said.

In the previous robbery attempt in October, two cars with suspects collided as police pulled up. Suspects in one of those cars led police on a chase to Van Zandt County and back before they were stopped on Moore St. . Five suspects were arrested in that incident.



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