Man arrested for auto burglaries after leading police on foot chase | KVII

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A man was arrested after leading police on a foot chase through an alley in south Amarillo and possessing items found to be taken in auto burglaries. According to police, at about 2:10 a. m. , officers, who were on a call in the 4000 block of S. Crockett, heard gunshots to the north of the area. While checking the area, officers spotted a man peeking out of an alley between the 3600 block of Milam and Hawthorne and then run away.

A man was arrested after leading police on a foot chase through an alley in south Amarillo and possessing items found to be taken in auto burglaries. (File)

AMARILLO, Texas (KVII) — A man was arrested after leading police on a foot chase through an alley in south Amarillo and possessing items found to be taken in auto burglaries.

According to police, at about 2:10 a.m., officers, who were on a call in the 4000 block of S. Crockett, heard gunshots to the north of the area. While checking the area, officers spotted a man peeking out of an alley between the 3600 block of Milam and Hawthorne and then run away.

When officers drove down the alley, the man was nowhere to be seen.

The officers drove to the access road of Canyon Drive and saw the man in the backyard of a residence in the 3600 block of S. Milam.

The subject ran from officers, getting onto a rooftop and running along rooftops to the north. The officers chased him until he was caught in the side yard of a residence on Milam.

The man, identified as 31-year-old Dustin Casey McClure, resisted arrest and two separate Tasers were deployed to help take him into custody, however, the Tasers were ineffective and McClure continued to fight to get away from police.

The officers were eventually able to get McClure under arrest and found him in possession of multiple knives, wallets and several pieces of identifying information not belonging to him. The items were discovered to have come from two unreported auto burglaries, one in the 2700 block of Shadow Court and the other in the 5300 block of S. Milam.

McClure was charged with resisting arrest, evading arrest or detention, fraudulent use of identifying information and burglary of a vehicle and booked into the Randall County Jail.