ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, December 6, 1996 TAG: 9612060053
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: JON CAWLEY
In the end, a Roanoke man's baggy pants were his downfall.
Billy Madison Asbury, 20, of Patterson Avenue Southwest, was charged with larceny early Thursday after leading police on a short foot chase through a Denniston Avenue yard, police said.
The police gave this account:
Officers responded to a car break-in in the 2100 block of Denniston at 1:27 a.m., and found two men leaning into the driver's-side window of a parked car, broken glass at their feet. As the officers approached, the two men ran behind a house. Police caught Asbury when his pants fell down around his ankles, causing him to trip and fall. The other man jumped a fence and fled down an alley.
When contacted Thursday night, Asbury's mother said her son told her that he was with the other man but stayed on the sidewalk and had nothing to do with the break-in. Asbury also did not run from the police, she said.
A stolen compact disc player and radio taken from a vehicle in the 2100 block of Denniston were found in an alley in the same block, police said.
Asbury was still being held in the Roanoke City Jail on Thursday night, a jailer said.
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