SAN ANTONIO – Dudley Wait is the EMS director in Schertz. He’s also a dog breeder. And on Sunday evening, he says two men came to his home after responding to an ad in the newspaper for Wait’s new litter of English Bulldog puppies.
Wait says the two men spent over an hour with him and his wife talking about bulldogs. He says it was clear the men were very familiar with the breed by the knowledge they had and the questions they asked.
Wait says finally, one of the suspects said he was going to his car to get the $1,500 needed to buy the puppy. He returned with a handgun.
Wait says the suspect, Alan Lara, pointed the gun at him and his wife and ordered them to go to the bathroom and shut the door. Wait says Lara’s partner, Alfredo Gonzalez Junior, helped Lara go through the house. The Waits say Lara and Gonzalez left with some cash, jewelry, phones, a purse, and the puppy they called Miss Brindie.
When the Waits were sure the suspects had gone, they escaped out of the bathroom. Cindy Wait ran to their neighbor’s house for help, while Dudley Wait ran to his Schertz EMS truck to use the radio to call in for help.
Thirty-six hours later, an alert police officer in Red Oak noticed the two suspects at a gas station. When they saw the officer, police say they tried to duck behind their car. The officer says he went to take a closer look and discovered all of the items in thebackseat that had been registered as stolen. Also among those items was Miss Brindie.
The Waits say they could not give enough credit to the Schertz police department and to that alert officer in Red Oak.
courtesy of Amanda Stanzilis / KENS 5
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