FUGITIVE SURRENDERS Fugitive Turns Self In After Seeing Himself On Television
Reported by: Leslie Rubin
Web Producer: Heath Harrison
Reported: Feb. 7, 2013 9:12 AM EST
Updated: Feb. 7, 2013 9:29 AM EST
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Charleston
, Kanawha County
, West Virginia
A fugitive profiled on Wednesday night's Fugitive Files on Eyewitness News turned himself in after seeing himself on television.
Jeremy Pettry was wanted for burglary after police said he and another man loaded up a truck full of stolen items from a home in Clendenin. This was the same home that had war medals stolen from a fallen soldier's family.
Pettry is the 487th fugitive captured after being profiled on the Fugitive Files.
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