CAUGHT RED-HANDED BURGLARY SUSPECT GETS STUCK, BURNED, BATTERED.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer PALMDALE - Earning a ``stupid criminal'' title from sheriff's deputies, a man broke into a restaurant early Wednesday by slithering slith·er v. slith·ered, slith·er·ing, slith·ers v.intr. 1. To glide or slide like a reptile. See Synonyms at slide. 2. To walk with a sliding or shuffling gait. 3. down a hot stove vent in which he burned himself and injured a leg, authorities said. He then broke a window to escape from the restaurant but collapsed outside. Firefighters said they found the soot-covered man near a pay telephone just outside the Cajun Country restaurant. He was scraped and bruised, apparently from struggling to break through two fire-sprinkler pipes that closed off the bottom of the vent, and his left leg was injured, possibly broken, Los Angeles County Fire Department Not to be confused with Los Angeles Fire Department. The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire and EMS services, including the City of La Capt. Bob Hancock said. ``How he got through, I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. . He must have struggled all night,'' Hancock said. Deputies and Cajun Country's owners suspect he thought he was climbing down a vent into the pawn shop a shop where a pawnbroker does business. - Shak. See also: Pawn next door. ``What's he going to find in here?'' said Josh Jynes, whose daughter, Jacqueline Jynes-Pearson, owns the restaurant. Deputies identified the suspect as Larry Nicholson, 34, of Palmdale, who was taken by ambulance to Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Hospital for treatment. They said he would be booked on suspicion of burglary. |
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