From the Des Moines Register of February 24, 2006
Landscaping employee has company's back
A Lounsbury Landscaping employee stopped a burglar in his tracks early in the morning on Feb. 19.
The employee lives above the business, 6000 Raccoon River Drive, and told police he could hear something downstairs. The employee grabbed his gun, a .45-caliber Colt series 80, and went into the business. He saw that a man had pried off the window but was not yet inside.
The employee detained the man - including firing a shot in the air when he thought the man began walking toward him - until police arrived. Police arrested the would-be thief, a 40-year-old West Des Moines man, and charged him with second-degree attempted burglary.
The man told police he had broken into Lounsbury Landscaping looking for money, according to reports.
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