Lackluster advice.

Ignoring a police dispatcher's advice that she not get her gun and pursue a man who had just robbed her 83-year-old mother, Theresa Gesell of Oklahoma City managed to capture the robber.

The robber, Roger Campbell, apparently followed Theresa's mother, Barbara, home from the grocery store on February 15; he then followed her into her garage and yanked her purse away from her. Theresa, who was at home at the time, began chasing Campbell, dialing 911 as she ran. A neighbor named "Hershall" noticed the incident and joined Theresa. At that point Theresa told the dispatcher, "I am going to get my .45 ... you all are too slow," reported KOCO TV Channel 5.

The dispatcher urged Theresa not to get or use a gun, but Theresa got her gun, and while the dispatcher continued talking, Theresa and Hershall caught up with Campbell as he tried to cross a creek bed and captured him. Even as Theresa held the robber at gunpoint while waiting for the police, the dispatcher tried to convince her to get rid of her gun. "You can put that gun up now," he told her. To which Theresa replied, "No sir, we have the gun pointed at him."

Shortly thereafter, the police arrived and arrested Campbell. Barbara Gesell's purse was recovered by Theresa and Hershall. Campbell faces charges of assault, attempted robbery, and various unrelated charges. While in police custody, Campbell tried to stymie the investigation by giving an alias, Roderick Stair.