A citizen’s arrest to prevent a robbery at Dover Unincorporated Food Facilities Sunday afternoon left one man with a leg injury. The suspect, 64-year-old Emory Cloverfield, had entered the food pantry and demanded lunch.
Ted Bryan, 47, of Squirrel Gulch, restrained suspect until police arrived.
“This guy was acting all cool, but inside, I knew he was like a time bomb. I can read auras and all that,” Mr. Bryan told DUMSTER. Three boxes of canned potatoes had been knocked over in the altercation. “First, I swept his leg. Then I put him in a standard citizen’s arrest, you know, like, planking on top of him so he couldn’t get away.”
Mr. Bryan, who decorates camouflage Stanley Thermos Cups for a living, is always on alert, and says his products help others do the same.
“It’s not called decorating when I make them, actually,” he clarified. “It’s called manufacturing.”
The sturdy cups, inconspicuous because of their camo, um, manufacturing, can be used as weapons.
Dover Detective Luke Ellis, who eventually arrived on-scene, high-fived Mr. Bryan and then searched Mr. Cloverfield for a weapon, which he didn’t find. He told DUMSTER that this is often the case: “The fact that there is no weapon here doesn’t mean there was no weapon here, like, previously. Maybe it’s under some of those potatoes, you know?”
Due to a severe staffing shortage, DUMSTER will not be following up on this story.
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