Caught Stealing - Baseball Mitt Thief Flipped Car While Fleeing Cops: Police

ORLAND PARK, IL — An Indiana man dashed out of Dick’s Sporting Goods with a stolen baseball mitt but flipped his car as he fled from the cops and ended up getting arrested, police said.

Dustin Lee Keaton, 33, cut the security wire holding a $359.99 baseball glove in place and then sprinted out of the store as the theft alarm rang out, police said.

Store workers reported to the law that Keaton got into a dark Ford Explorer and provided them with the license plate number, police said.

An officer spotted Keaton heading south on LaGrange Road and indicated for him to pull over. Keaton slowed down and turned on his right directional, police said, but then allegedly accelerated into the intersection with 183rd Street.

Keaton didn’t make it through the intersection, police said, as he slammed into a car crossing from his right.

The Explorer “rolled over several times” before stopping about 25 feet south of the intersection, police said. Keaton, a Valparaiso resident, climbed out the driver’s side window and, after he was ordered to put his hands on the car, fell to the ground.

Keaton and a passenger both told officers that they were all right but were still taken to Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox.

After his release from the hospital, Keaton was carted off to the Cook County jail. He remains in custody.