GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Police are crediting neighbors with helping track down a wanted man who ran away from a traffic stop on Green Bay’s west side.
Around 11 p.m. Thursday, police say they pulled over a vehicle in the area of Harrison and Phoebe streets. One of the people in the vehicle ran out into the surrounding neighborhood. He was later identified as a 29-year-old Green Bay man who was wanted on a probation warrant; he was on probation for several domestic violence crimes.
Neighbors came out and helped officers who were looking for the man, pointing out where they had seen him running.
Green Bay Police Lt. Dave Wesely says, “This is what we want. These people are at large in our community and we need the citizen’s help to apprehend them as quickly as possible and put them where they belong and that’s in jail.”
Just after 11:30, a police dog found the man hiding in a common entryway of a two-family home in the 700 block of Elmore Street. The man did not live there.
The man was taken to jail on the probation warrant. He could also be charged with resisting and obstructing officers.
No one was hurt.
