OGDEN, UTAH — It’s not a good idea to mess with the mayor, even if he isn’t very big.
Mayor Matthew Godfrey and his wife were awakened early Wednesday when somebody tried to break into their house through a side door and then a rear door. Godfrey jumped out of bed, checked on his children and went outside.
“He was heading across the front lawn riding a bike of ours,” Godfrey said. “I ran him down and tackled him, wrestled him and put him in a headlock.”
He held the man down while his wife called 911.
Curtis Poorman, 20, was arrested for investigation of burglary, robbery, public intoxication, illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor, possession of marijuana – “we’ll stop there,” police Lt. Scott Sangberg said.
The mayor is “half the burglar’s size,” police Chief Jon Greiner said.
Godfrey, a long-distance runner, stands 5-feet-6 and weighs 135 pounds. Poorman, 20, weighs 163 pounds on a 5-foot- 11 frame, jail records said.
“It’s like what I tell my son: Between 18 and 25, that’s what I call the stupid years,” said Poorman’s attorney, J.D. Poorman, a distant cousin.
