Burglary victim sees man wearing his stolen pants
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Posted: 2:26 AM Feb 10, 2010
Burglary victim sees man wearing his stolen pants
Investigators canvassing Riceville residents after vandalism at a cemetery and burglaries in the same neighborhood got an odd break. A burglary victim noticed that a passer-by being questioned was wearing his stolen pants and shoes.
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RICEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Investigators canvassing Riceville residents after vandalism at a cemetery and burglaries in the same neighborhood got an odd break. A burglary victim noticed that a passer-by being questioned was wearing his stolen pants and shoes.

WRCB-TV in Chattanooga reported McMinn County Detective Jerry Wilson said he was talking to burglary victim Jeff King in the rural East Tennessee community Monday when another officer stopped a man and a teenager who were walking by.

Wilson said 19-year-old William Henry and a juvenile have been charged with burglary and with felony vandalism in the cemetery damage.

King said his encounter with the man wearing his stolen clothes was "karma."

Dozens of headstones, some more than a century old, were toppled. Some were broken.

(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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Posted by: carol Location: knoxville on Feb 10, 2010 at 09:26 AM

i know the feeling. my house was broken into while i was on vacation a few years ago. the neighbors thought my husband and i were moving. after coming home to a empty house i was at a second hand store on clinton hwy.there was my furniture or at least some of it. that just about blew me away. it is terrible how some one just doesn't care about another person. i have the benifit knowing tho what comes around goes around.