AZ shoplifting suspect threatens employee with ax
Jun 30, 2012, 10:28 AM | Updated: 10:29 am
PHOENIX -— Phoenix police have arrested two men on
multiple felony charges after they say one of them
threatened an employee with an ax after shoplifting at a
Home Depot in northwest Phoenix.
Officer James Holmes says that 27-year-old Kyle Gustav Book
and 23-year-old Michael Powers were arrested Friday on
charges of armed robbery, stealing a car and unlawful
flight.
Holmes says that police suspect Book of shoplifting and
then threatening an employee with an ax before running out
of the store and getting into a car driven by Powers.
Officers who had responded to the scene tried to stop the
car, but the pair fled. Police used a helicopter to track
them and soon after arrested them.
It’s unclear whether Book and Powers yet have attorneys.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
