LONGMONT — A spur-of-the-moment posse helped police catch a suspect in a bicycle theft as he fled from a McDonald’s on Wednesday.
According to police records, the man had been trying to buy food at the McDonald’s at 1900 Main St. but didn’t have any money. After yelling at the soda machines, police said, the man walked outside and berated a 50-year-old Longmont man, first demanding money and then calling him a “terrorist” and “not an American.”
At that point, police said, the 29-year-old man stole the 50-year-old’s hat and bicycle and took off. Several witnesses chased after him, officers said, which caught the attention of a passing cyclist.
The cyclist pursued the suspect to the 2000 block of Terry Street, yelling at him to “give it up” — until the suspect dismounted and punched the cyclist off his bike, holding him down and yelling at him to “give it up.”
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