Texas man calls 911 after injuring himself during alleged car dealership break-in

An attempted burglary was thwarted astatine a Texas car dealership aft a antheral called 911 to study helium had been injured during the break-in, constabulary said.

The Tyler Police Department arrested Jeremiah Megallon aft receiving a telephone from him that helium had injured himself portion trying to interruption into the Patterson Dodge dealership.

Police accidental the telephone came successful astir 3:45 a.m. Thursday from Megallon, who claimed helium had conscionable breached into the dealership and needed help.

"He said helium had breached into the Patterson Dodge dealership successful an effort to bargain a car but was incapable to get retired of the building," Public Information Officer Andy Erbaugh told Fox News Digital. "He had cuts from breaking a model astatine the dealership and crawling done it."

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Police accidental Jeremiah Megallon called 911 aboriginal Thursday greeting aft allegedly attempting to burglarize a Tyler, Texas, car dealership and was incapable to permission aft being injured. (Smith County Jail)

Erbaugh said Megallon said helium was trying to bargain a car by throwing a stone done a model to summation introduction into the gathering and chopped himself. 

"Unfortunately for him, determination were respective unlocked doors helium could person utilized to get out," Erbaugh added. "After 26 years here, information is alien than fiction." 

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A antheral trying to interruption into a car dealership Wednesday nighttime successful Texas called constabulary connected himself erstwhile helium was injured, constabulary said. (KLTV)

An authoritative from the dealership told KLTV the lone harm to the concern was a model Megallon shattered erstwhile helium threw the stone done it to get inside. 

A subordinate of the unit told the outlet the lone happening helium managed to bargain was candy from the table of a salesperson.

Megallon was taken to a infirmary and aboriginal transported to the Smith County Jail, wherever helium was arrested for burglary of a building, Erbaugh said. 

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An alleged burglar called 911 aft injuring himself portion allegedly attempting to bargain a attraction from a dealership successful Tyler, Texas.  (KLTV)

Erbaugh said this was not the archetypal clip successful his vocation helium had dealt with a fishy turning himself into the police.

"Several years ago, I was a crimes against persons detective, and 1 of the cases we took was a 75-year-old retired dentist who called to archer america helium had changeable and killed his wife," Erbaugh recalled. 

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Erbaugh was talking astir Dr. Bobby Nichols, who admitted to shooting his wife, Rosalind Nichols, aft an statement erstwhile helium returned location from a nighttime of drinking successful 2012. 

"He said, 'I'm a retired dentist, and she wouldn't halt nagging [me],'" Erbaugh recalled. "He said, ‘I went retired to get a brew astatine Willowbrook Country Club,’ which is 1 of our section state clubs, and she didn't similar that."

Erbaugh recalled Nichols said, "'I had different 1 erstwhile I got home, and she wouldn't stop, truthful I got my pistol and I changeable her.'"

Erbaugh said Nichols was sentenced to 20 years successful situation for his wife's murder. 

Stepheny Price is simply a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. She covers topics including missing persons, homicides, nationalist transgression cases, amerciable immigration, and more. Story tips and ideas tin beryllium sent to [email protected]