A man with a wrap sheet as long as a grocery list tried to give law enforcement the slip, but a furry four-legged officer had other plans, officials said. According to a post on their official Facebook page, the office of Constable Mark Herman reported that deputies responded to a call about a suspicious male at a storage facility in Spring on January 25, where the suspect made a run for it.
Deputies spotted the suspect's vehicle and pulled him over, but Andrew Rehwinkel, 32, led the deputies on a car chase after being stopped he ditched the vehicle, set his sneakers to sprint mode, unsuccessful in ditching the dogged deputies and their canine, Mitch. The chase ended when Mitch, the constable canine unit, helped apprehend Rehwinkel after a brief foot pursuit.
Before the incident, Rehwinkel had been warned to steer clear of the property, but he allegedly tried to break into storage units instead; a deeper look by deputies revealed the car Rehwinkel was driving had been stolen fresh off the lot, and the suspect was already on bond for a buffet of felonies including evading, theft and burglary, per the Precinct 4 Facebook account.
A statement from Constable Mark Herman, revealed that “Andrew Rehwinkel was arrested and booked into the Harris County Jail, charged with Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle and Evading Arrest in a Motor Vehicle. His total bond had not been set at this time out of the 185th District Court.”
