"Crow Sought by Police for Stealing Knife from Crime Scene"

"Crow Sought by Police for Stealing Knife from Crime Scene"

Posted: Aug 19, 2017

By Rhonda Hughes, Florida Times-Union

On Thursday afternoon, Gainesville police responded to a call near 5th Ave and 18th Ter to the scene of a car engulfed in flames. They were called when they arrived, police said, they were confronted by a man with a knife. Shots were fired and the man was arrested.

While detaining the suspect, whose name has not yet been released to the press, responding officer Mike Howell said he saw a bird swoop in and pick up an object from inside an area blocked off by police vehicles. The "Two of us had our hands full with (the man), so another officer chased it for about 15 to 20 feet, before the crow got up among some branches and took off," Howell told FTU. Police canvassed the neighborhood in hopes of recovering the knife to no avail.