Cat tips police to suspect

Associated Press

Corpus Christi July 09, 2009 05:29 pm

— Corpus Christi police looking for a man wanted for an alleged parole violation got an assist help from a discerning feline.

Police records show officers were searching a mobile home for 34-year-old Roger Crossland on Wednesday but couldn't find him inside. they stepped outside and peered under the trailer and saw a cat staring at the crossbeams on its bottom. The cat's gaze led them to Crossland.

He's now in Nueces County Jail charged with violating a 10-year probationary term from a 2000 theft case.