Spaghetti Sauce Helps Nail Burglary Suspect
Posted/updated on: November 1, 2012 at 2:35 am
LONGVIEW – A Gregg County man has been arrested for burglary. Officers were able to identify him by the red spaghetti sauce around his lips and mouth. Michael Don Mitchell, 38, of Longview, has been charged with burglary of a habitation.
Authorities say he was the suspect who broke into a home on Crowder Lane. He is said to have taken around $90 in cash. He also took time at the home to eat a bowl of ravioli. When a Lakeport police officer found Mitchell, he noticed the red spaghetti sauce, which the officer knew was “consistent with the sauce used in Chef Boyardee raviolis.”
Mitchell was being held in the Gregg County Jail in lieu of a $10,000 bond.
