They Were Filming The News When They Stepped In To Rescue A Stolen Dog
This past Friday in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a city located in the Boston metro area, someone left their 13-month-old German Short Haired Pointer in their parked car.
While they were gone, a man broke into their car and stole their dog.
“Yesterday at approximately 12:32p, an unknown suspect broke into and entered a vehicle that was parked at 620 Memorial Drive & stole a 13-month-old white German Short Haired Pointer out of the vehicle,” the Cambridge Police said in a tweet.
“The suspect was then observed walking the dog over the BU Bridge into Boston,” they continued, sharing photos of the man who stole the dog.
They said the dog, named Titus, had a bright orange collar on, and his name was on the tags.
Many people took to the comments section to ask if the man had mistakenly thought the dog might need help, but the police said it seemed to be intentional.
“That the dog was then taken across the bridge into Boston made this more suspicious,” the Cambridge Police replied to a commenter.
The hunt was on to find Titus, and it was a news crew that ended up being the ones to spot the stolen pup!
Cambridge Police; pictured above is a tweet the police shared, including photos of the suspect who stole Titus
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Juliana Mazza, who works as a reporter for 7NEWS, and her coworker John Guice, a photojournalist, got wind of the story about Titus being stolen.
So, the duo headed down to Cambridge to the exact spot where Titus had been taken from to report the scoop.
While Juliana and John were filming, they realized a man was headed in their direction, and he was waking a dog.
They decided to flag him down to see if he could answer a few questions for their news segment, but they had no idea this would turn out to be the story of their lives.
Cambridge Police; pictured above is Titus, the German Shorthair Pointer that was stolen from a car
The man they stopped to chat with was walking a dog that looked identical to Titus, and as Juliana begins speaking with him, there’s no doubt in her mind this is Titus and the dognapper.
The man who stole Titus then says to Juliana that he saw the dog barking inside the car, so he took him out because he thought it looked like a dog he was supposed to be dog walking.
He tried to play it off as a mistake, but nobody quite believed what he had to say.
That story didn’t make sense to Juliana, so she called the police on camera to explain she was with Titus, and the man was taken into custody.
Thankfully, Titus was reunited with his owner.
You can watch the footage of Juliana and John intervening with the dognapper and saving Titus here.
Twitter; pictured above is a screenshot of Juliana first realizing she was standing in front of the stolen dog Titus
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