Tiny dog helps corner fugitive
A three-pound Chihuahua mix named Tink is being praised for helping police corner a Christmas Day fugitive.
The dog’s adventure began when four suspects who were fleeing police crashed a stolen minivan into a hillside. Auburn homeowner Wendy Anderson said Tink, her son’s Pomeranian and Chihuahua mix, found a suspect hiding under a neighbor’s motor home and chased him into the woods.
Her son and husband directed a law enforcement helicopter to where 20-year-old Marvin Gonzales was hiding.
“The Chihuahua gave him up,” California Highway Patrol Officer Jeff Herbert said.
The other suspects, including the driver, were juveniles from the San Francisco Bay Area, Herbert said.
They crashed the van in the Sierra foothill town east of Sacramento.
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