Tulsa Police: Crime Victim Chases, Captures Suspected Car Thief

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TULSA, Oklahoma -- Police say a Tulsa resident captured a suspected car thief Friday morning in North Tulsa. According to a news release, Officer Brad Hill was driving on North Harvard at about 3:44 a.m. when he was flagged down by a man on the side of the road who had another male in a headlock.

Hill learned that the victim was asleep at his home in the 3100 block of East Woodrow Street when he heard his Chevy truck start up in the driveway. The man told police he looked outside and saw suspect Johnny Lee Leonard in the pickup trying to drive off.

The resident ran outside and confronted Leonard then chased him to the corner of Harvard and Woodrow where he saw the passing patrol car.

Leonard, an Owasso resident, denied that he was trying to steal the vehicle, saying he saw the truck in the street with its doors open and was investigating it when the resident scared him.

He was booked on a complaint of larceny of an automobile.