AUSTIN (KXAN) — Craig Staley, owner of Royal Blue Grocery, said he searched for the man seen in his surveillance footage breaking into his store after he filed a non-emergency police report.
About a year ago, APD asked people to start calling 311 instead of 911 to report crimes that were not in progress.
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As Staley looked through surveillance footage, he recognized the man as the same person who was arrested after a burglary at another Royal Blue Grocery location in February.
According to arrest records, he was right – it was the same person: Marion Osborne.
Staley said he wanted to find Osborne because he didn’t want him hitting his business again.
“I thought, ‘OK, we’re going to have to take care of this one on our own,’” he said. “And I almost went home and got ready for the day and I thought ‘no, I’m going to drive…
