Pokemon GO Players Help Arrest Murder Suspect

They would have had him arrested sooner had they not been so Slowbrow. What an Oddish story. Story out of Fullerton, California:

Two “Pokémon Go” players in Fullerton found more than virtual monsters while on a walk Tuesday morning. They helped catch a man wanted on suspicion of attempted murder, according to police.

While searching for virtual characters at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday near the intersection of Wilshire and Pomona avenues, the pair encountered a man who accosted two women and their children, touching one child on the chest, foot and leg, said Seth Ortega, one of the men who helped stop the suspect.

Just before Spanish class at Fullerton Community College, Ortega, 24, went searching for Pokémon with his roommate Javier Soch, 27, when Soch’s game froze. When Soch looked away from the screen of his smartphone, he spotted a woman with three children running away from a man who they later learned touched one of her children with a plastic rose, Ortega said.

The man was dressed in peculiar attire with a hat and loose-fitting jacket so Soch and Ortega kept their eyes on him, and told the man that his actions made the woman uncomfortable.

Ortega directed the man to the nearby police station, where officers could put him in contact with a homeless shelter, but the man lingered in the park and approached another woman with children, Ortega said.

The man patted one of the boys on the chest and then followed him to the playground, where he touched the child’s leg, Ortega said. He and another passerby stopped the man until police arrived.

Sgt. Kathryn Hamel confirmed that Fullerton police arrested a man for child annoyance and found that the man had an outstanding warrant for attempted murder in Sonoma County. Police did not release his name. Cont.

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