EAST CHICAGO, Ind. — Police in northwestern Indiana have arrested the Gary City Council president on allegations he fired a gun at two youngsters he suspected of stealing his automotive and taking one in every of them again to Gary.
An lawyer for Ron Brewer says his actions have been a authorized citizen’s arrest.
East Chicago Police Lt. Jose Rivera tells The (Northwest Indiana) Times that Brewer was arrested Sunday evening on possible trigger for legal recklessness and kidnapping.
Rivera mentioned Brewer apparently tracked his stolen automobile to East Chicago with a cellphone app and fired photographs throughout a confrontation with the youngsters inside it. Rivera says Brewer wrongly took the regulation into his personal palms with out contacting police.
Attorney Scott King tells The Associated Press that Brewer didn’t commit against the law underneath Indiana regulation.