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Friday afternoon UAB police chased a man from inside the Hill University Center out onto the concourse where they arrested him for attempting to steal a student’s bag from the lobby.

Ed Adair, facilities coordinator in HUC Operations, said that the trouble began when a student walked away from her bag in the lobby and returned to find it gone.

“The Director [of HUC Operations, Mike Sasser] checked our camera system and saw an individual who was in the area at the time, seemed to be looking over there and walked that way,” said Adair. “When [Sasser] went back up front to tell everybody to be on the lookout for this person, the guy was standing there with the bag.”

Adair said that the suspect had indicated he had found the bag in the hallway, but the victim was not convinced.
“We had been up and down the hallway,” said Adair.

The worker at the information desk had called the police, and Adair was attempting to stall the suspect until they arrived.

“He finally got nervous and took off,” Adair said.

Drew Denton of UAB Life 180, an eyewitness to the apprehension of the suspect, said that about the time the police showed up in the lobby of the HUC, the suspect came running through with Ed Adair in hot pursuit.

“[The police] were just in a good spot,” said Denton. “They grabbed him and there was tussle, and then he gets on the ground and he’s still fighting them.”

Denton said that within minutes the police had control of the suspect and had him in handcuffs.
UAB police officers on the scene declined to give the name of the suspect.