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I’ll try to briefly summarize what went down:
About 4:30 pm in Harris County. BG was caught inside of co-workers car, trying to steal it. Upon being seen he ran off. I was not outside at the time, but walked out a few minutes later, less than 5. I do not have CHL (been waiting since 2/7/09 but that’s a different story), but did have gun in truck (castle law). I said “if he’s on foot, how far could he be? Let’s go find him!” Not really thinking, “what do we do if we do find him?” Sure enough we found him. He comes over to my truck, my hand is on gun “just in case” but outta sight. There are 3 of us, but on a public road, away from crime scene possibly in front of this guys house. He bids us farewell with sign language and pleasantries and walks off. We call cops. They come, a lot sooner than I expected, I might add. They question us and eventually catch him.
So, my questions are:
Could I have “held” him at gun point until cops arrived?
Could the people that caught him in the act physically held him until cops arrived?
I’ll admit feeling a little frustrated because here is this smart foot punk 2 ft from us and I felt like anything we did might/would cause us to be in trouble.