Man accused of breaking into cop automobile and stealing a rifle whereas sporting police insignia

A person was arrested Friday in Pentagon City, accused by the Arlington County Police Department of breaking right into a cop automobile and stealing a police rifle.

Suspect Tyler Rodriguez-Hernandez, 21, police say, discharged a fireplace extinguisher, used a shovel to interrupt into an ACPD cop automobile in a parking storage within the 700 block of twelfth Street South in Arlington, Virginia, earlier than then taking a rifle and different gadgets.

Witnesses within the space referred to as 911 round 9:06 a.m., reporting a person waving round an extended gun as he walked up and down twelfth Street South, close to the doorway to the Pentagon City Metrorail station. 

Callers additionally reported the person sporting federal company insignia and a ballistic vest, in accordance to ARLNow.com, and advised he was going in direction of the mall after making an attempt to drop off a bag within the foyer of a close-by residence constructing.

The man, which police imagine to be Mr. Rodriguez-Hernandez, was caught on visitors cameras jogging in direction of the mall. 

After a short jaunt within the mall, Mr. Rodriguez-Hernandez entered one other parking storage within the 1100 block of South Hayes Street, the place he was apprehended by police. No photographs had been fired and nobody was injured in the course of the incident.