(May 12, 2008)—Temple police turned to their K-9 Korak after three men sped off in an SUV with a garbage can full of cigarettes taken from a local convenience store.
Temple police Cpl. Jack Youngs spotted the cigarette thieves around 4:30 a.m. Friday at the Cefco store at 2410 S. General Bruce Dr. while on routine patrol.
They carried the garbage can filled with cigarettes out of the smashed front door of the store, got into a waiting SUV and drove off.
Youngs gave chase, police said, but the three men didn’t get far before their SUV crashed into a curb in the 1800 block of South 49th Street.
They fled and Youngs called for K-9 assistance, police said.
Korak tracked the men over a half mile through a wooded area and a creek bed and found them hiding in a breezeway at the Creekside Apartments at 3550 SW HK Dodgen Loop after an hour after Youngs first spotted the burglary in progress.
Officers arrested the three without incident, police said.
Complaints charging burglary of a building were filed against Kerone Marcell Felder, 29, of Corsicana, Kristopher lakov Medlock, 25, of Kemp and Derrick Dewayne Medlock, 31, of Dallas, police said.
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