(The following story by Scott Lawrence appeared at KFDM.com on May 12, 2009.)
BEAUMONT, Texas — Employees of Union Pacific Railroad held a burglary suspect until Beaumont police could arrest him.
Police say they received a report at about 4 p.m. Monday of a suspicious man in the 39 hundred block of Bristol and 39 hundred block of Broadmoor. He was wearing a white t-shirt and didn’t have on shoes. While police were responding they learned a man fitting that description had been detained by Union Pacific employees after he was accused of burglarizing a vehicle in the five hundred block of Lindbergh. Police identified the suspect as Marc Von Taft, 29, of Beaumont.
Police say their investigation revealed Taft had burglarized a home in the 39 hundred of Broadmoor and ran away when a witness confronted him. He ran to a railroad yard where witnesses say they saw him burglarizing a vehicle.
Railroad employees detained Von Taft and he was booked into the Jefferson County Jail for Burglary of a Habitation and Burglary of a Vehicle. He has four traffic ticket warrants.