Oops! Wrong way
Leslie Stratmoen

KVOW/KTAK

News Director

Originally published February 4, 2010, 06:03 p.m. EST.

Updated February 5, 2010, 09:13 a.m. EST

RIVERTON, Wyo. – OK. If you’re going to steal a bottle of schnapps from a grocery store, it’s probably a good idea to have an escape plan.

A Riverton man apparently forgot that detail when he grabbed the bottle of booze from the Riverton Safeway shelf Wednesday afternoon, along with a package of cough drops. He ran out of the store in a panic and into a nearby building to hide. But his chosen place of refuge just happened to be the police station.

Upon realizing his mistake, he turned tail and ran back outside, but the dispatcher had already spied him on the station’s surveillance camera and alerted officers. One of those officers caught him, not far away, and identified the thief as 26-year-old Jason Antelope.

So, along with shoplifting, Antelope was charged with resisting arrest for running. His flight could be attributed to the fact that he already had a warrant out for his arrest. Or maybe, it was just because he was drunk. He blew a BAC of .298.