Car owner stops theft, detains suspect

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Posted: 02/28/2013
Last Updated: 85 days ago

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A teenager picked the wrong car to hot wire on Wednesday morning.

The car's owner told police he saw someone in his 2002 Honda Civic in the parking lot of a business in Colorado Springs around 9:30 a.m.

The car owner not only confronted the would-be thief, he held him until police arrived.

Officers said they arrested Dylan Fritts, 18.

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