It looks like this man was arrested three times in one hour and you will be pretty flabbergasted as to why it all went down…
It all began on February 13th, and that turned out to be a busy day for both one Los Angeles resident and the Glendale Police Department.
Forty-seven-year-old James Langdon had the first run-in with the police in the wee hours of the morning on that day, and that was when he was observed in a parking lot pacing near an intersection “of Colorado St. and Louise St.” according to the news release from the GPD.
There was one point where Langdon bolted across the street even though there was a crosswalk sign that read, “Don’t Walk”, according to the release. That is when police pursued him, and when he noticed that they were chasing him, he ran even more.
Although he was detained a short while later, he did put up a brief struggle and requested medical attention. He was transported to a local hospital and they gave him a notice to appear in court later on charges of obstruction.
About six-and-a-half hours later, police received a call that someone was trespassing and once they arrived they soon discovered that it was the same man from earlier that morning.
“Upon arrival, officers located Langdon who was determined to have entered the business and was attempting to gain entry to a closed part of the business with a screwdriver when he was interrupted by an employee,” the news release said.
“Langdon was subsequently arrested and booked for trespassing, but due to L.A. County’s emergency ‘Zero-Dollar’ bail order, Langdon was released from custody within three hours of being booked with a notice to appear in court at a later date,” it said.
They say the third time’s the charm, and it was evening when the Glendale Police Department once again got a call about this same individual, and this time it was a burglary of an apartment building on Balboa Avenue.
“So he had actually gone and put their clothes on, was drinking alcohol in their apartment, making a mess, destroying things,” Glendale Police Sgt. Christian Hauptmann told KCBS-TV.
After law enforcement arrived at the apartment, that is when they discovered that Langdon was walking alongside the hallway. However, when he saw them, he ran back to the apartment and locked the door, according to this Glendale news release.
Police had surrounded the area and it wasn’t long before a K-9 unit showed up even though Langdon was still adamantly that he was not going to leave. Eventually, police convinced him that he should exit the bedroom he was hiding in.
In this case, they arrested Langdon for burglary and felony vandalism, and that put an end to the criminal hide-and-seek that he had been playing all day long.
Langdon caused about $6,000 in property damage during his last stunt and it was then that he was finally being held on $150,000 bail.
L.A. County Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami blamed Langdon’s dalliances on the zero-bail policies that have been brought about by his superior, Deputy District Attorney George Gascon.
“If you’re allowing somebody to commit three crimes in a 16-hour span and, basically, you know, terrorize people in Glendale without any public safety concern, and I don’t think George Gascón cares,” Hatami said, according to KCBS.
“Nobody’s getting prosecuted for lower-level crimes, and what happens then is they commit higher-level crimes,” he said.