Florida Afghanistan Veteran Marine Takes Down Crook

Former Marine helps catch robbery suspect in Bradenton
Bay News 9
By Randi Nissenbaum, Reporter
March 09, 2014

BRADENTON
Dustin Ellis was relaxing outside of his parents' house in Bradenton last week, when he witnessed a neighbor's house being robbed.

“He got past us and I heard that the gentlemen robbed a ladies house," said Ellis. "I started chasing him down the sidewalk.”

Ellis, a Marine who served in Afghanistan until 2012, ended up chasing the suspect through the neighborhood. He even had to climb through fences. Ellis has a brown belt in Marine Corps martial arts.

When he tracked down the suspect, he realized that he had a screw driver in his hand. Thanks to his Marine background, he knew just what to do.

“I came up from behind him, I took the screwdriver from him and then I put him on the ground," he said. "When I did, he was on his hands and knees and dropped to his stomach. From there I then rolled him over in a sitting position and grabbed him by his hoodie.”
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