A group of cowboys helped police corral a carjacking suspect Wednesday afternoon in east Las Vegas, and it was all captured on video.
Cowboy Cayden Cox of Arroyo Grande, California, said he was participating in a team roping competition at The Horseman’s Park, 5800 E. Flamingo Road, when he noticed a Las Vegas police helicopter flying in the sky. Then, as he sat on his horse preparing to rope some calves, he saw a man jump a nearby fence and start running.
“I look over to my right, and he’s jumping over these 8-foot tall panels where the horses are,” Cox said.
Cox recognized that the man was fleeing from the police like a calf might flee from a cowboy. He grabbed his rope and prepared to lasso the suspect, but before he could, a group of cowboys surrounded the man. The suspect raised his hands and went to the ground before police took him into custody.
“I was hesitant to rope him, but that was my goal if he kept running. … I would have made sure I stuck it on him,” Cox said. A video posted on Facebook
by cowboy Colton Payne showed the man being handcuffed as a female
onlooker hollered “Yeeee haw!” A cowboy yelled “wooohooo,” and someone
said, “He picked the wrong place!”...MORE
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