SLIDELL, La. (WVUE) - A body cam video posted by Slidell Police shows the extent to which one of the department’s officers went to apprehend a shoplifting suspect on Saturday (Nov. 1).

The video shows Sgt. Jeff Kahrs, who was working a security detail at the Dillards store at Fremaux Town Center, attempting to detain an alleged shoplifter.

The woman, identified later as 34-year-old Kelsey Baird of Navarre, Fla., “discarded the items that she was attempting to steal,” the police department said, before bolting from the store. With Kahrs in pursuit on foot, Baird got into a waiting sedan in the parking lot driven by 43-year-old Eric Boudreaux of Biloxi, Miss.

According to police, a Good Samaritan watching the pursuit in the parking lot pulled up to Kahrs and offered him a ride in her SUV

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