FLORIDA - While it’s often recommended people stop and smell the flowers, taking time out to pet cats could even lead to arrest.
All that happened after the man was accused of taking $2,000 out of a friend’s wallet following a night of partying, according to UPI. The man then crashed a Lexus into various vehicles, including a cop car and a fire hydrant, before he bailed into a residential area.
At that point, both the Boca Raton and Delray Beach police departments were closing in on his tail.
The man walked up to Candace Noonan’s back sliding-glass door and let himself in, saying he was a landscaper working in the home next door. He asked her for a glass of water and she gave it to him, First Coast News reported.
When she returned with the water, the man was laying down on the floor, playing with her fur-kids.
“It was odd, very odd,” First Coast News quoted Noonan as saying.
When Noonan’s husband tried to question the man, he fled outside and tried to get away from the police by diving into the Intracoastal Waterway.
The crew onboard a police boat landed the catch which resulted in an Aug. 28 trip to the Palm Beach County Jail.
Daniel Pinedo-Velapatino, 21, now faces a long list of charges, including burglary of an occupied dwelling, three counts of drug possession, three counts of assault, hit and run, and grand theft auto, among a few others.
Goes to show you, we humans might rescue cats, but sometimes the cats rescue us, even save us. How many people did Candace’s cats save that day? Including the life of the accused.fugitive!
Photo credit: Daniel Pinedo-Velapatino/Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office