Overview
- Police say a witness reported a man skulking around a single-family home in Krefeld’s Benrade district, where an officer found break-in signs and saw the suspect flee through a window.
- The suspect hid in a nearby field as the police control center sent a helicopter, which searched from above and drove him toward a garden noted by a second witness.
- At a garden hut, the man jumped from a window to run again and the service dog named Beast bit his leg to stop him after a short chase.
- Officers identified the detainee as a 50-year-old local with prior property offenses and said they recovered stolen goods from him.
- He remains in hospital after leg surgery and police plan to bring him before a Haftrichter on Saturday, a German magistrate who quickly reviews detention after an arrest.