Employee tackles car theft suspect

A Coeur d’Alene gas station employee tackled and a detained a man who was trying to carjack a woman on Monday morning.

Coeur d’Alene Police officers responded to several car burglaries around 8:45 a.m. An officer was able to locate the suspect vehicle near the intersection of Northwest Boulevard and West Ironwood Drive. When to officer tried to stop the car, the driver, later identified as Dwight Higgins, began to drive off at a high rate of speed.

Officials said the SUV Higgins was driving drove over the guardrail as he was trying to turn onto the westbound I-90 onramp at exit 11. Then, the SUV got stuck in the snow. Police said Higgins and his passenger, Victoria Calloway, fled on foot.

Higgins ran to an occupied car that was stopped at the Conoco gas station on West Appleway Avenue and broke the window trying to get inside, according to authorities/Taylor Viydo, KREM 2. More here.