A family's goat alerted them to a criminal hiding in the brush behind
their house in Fountain, Colorado. In an ironic twist, the suspect was
already wanted on an unrelated animal abuse charge.
Joseph Hargett, 22, also known as Joseph Kimsey, is behind bars at the
El Paso County Jail facing a list of new felony charges after he tried
to escape troopers during an attempted traffic stop south of Fountain on
Friday morning.
A spokesperson with Colorado State Patrol says at 8:15am, troopers
spotted Hargett in a pick-up truck just south of the Pikes Peak
International Raceway, refusing to yield. Instead of stopping, he got
off the interstate and started speeding through fields to get away. He
eventually abandoned the truck.
John Browning, his wife Kathy, and their son Nick were told by neighbors that State Troopers had warned them that Hargett might still
be in the area.
When the family was getting ready to leave the house on Friday evening,
they decided to take one more look around to make sure nothing was out
of the ordinary, and that's when they noticed their six-year-old goat
Dwight seemed to be looking at something in the bushes behind their
home.
John Browning: "one more time I'll just quickly check all the doors and
windows and make sure they're locked, and I just happened to glance down
this way, and I said Kathy, Dwight's looking at someone."
Just moments later, Hargett came walking out of the bushes and started
to walk toward their neighbors house.
Kathy and John called the neighbor and 911. Next-door-neighbor Gary Keller said: "Kathy called us up and said hey there's somebody walking toward your house that doesn't look like they belong here." Gary was able to convince Hargett to come out and surrender to Sheriff's Deputies, who were already on their way, but it's likely none of them would have noticed Hargett in the first place if it weren't for Dwight the goat. Court records show that Hargett was wanted for misdemeanor animal abuse/neglect charges from December, 2014. Hargett is now facing several new charges. According to jail booking information, Hargett is an active duty, Fort Carson soldier.
When the family was getting ready to leave the house on Friday evening,
they decided to take one more look around to make sure nothing was out
of the ordinary, and that's when they noticed their six-year-old goat
Dwight seemed to be looking at something in the bushes behind their
home.
John Browning: "one more time I'll just quickly check all the doors and
windows and make sure they're locked, and I just happened to glance down
this way, and I said Kathy, Dwight's looking at someone."
Just moments later, Hargett came walking out of the bushes and started
to walk toward their neighbors house.Kathy and John called the neighbor and 911. Next-door-neighbor Gary Keller said: "Kathy called us up and said hey there's somebody walking toward your house that doesn't look like they belong here." Gary was able to convince Hargett to come out and surrender to Sheriff's Deputies, who were already on their way, but it's likely none of them would have noticed Hargett in the first place if it weren't for Dwight the goat. Court records show that Hargett was wanted for misdemeanor animal abuse/neglect charges from December, 2014. Hargett is now facing several new charges. According to jail booking information, Hargett is an active duty, Fort Carson soldier.
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