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A group of construction workers who witnessed a man stealing an iPod from a Palo Alto construction site on Saturday chased the man down, fought him and restrained him until police arrived, according to a Palo Alto police press release.
When police arrived at construction site of the office complex at 260 Sheridan Ave. at 11:01 a.m., they found the four construction workers restraining 22-year-old Keneth Dale Stepp of San Jose, whom police handcuffed and took to the Santa Clara County jail.
The tussle began in the basement of the site, where workers were doing demolition with jackhammers. One of the workers saw Stepp steal an iPod off a work table and flee, the police stated.
The workers caught up with him and began to escort him upstairs. Stepp fought with the four men in an attempt to escape, but the workers forced him to the ground and restrained him until officers arrived, police stated.
Stepp and two of the workers suffered minor bruises and abrasions as a result of the fight, and one of the workers received a small cut from a pipe used to smoke narcotics, according to the press release.
Officers returned the stolen iPod to its owner and also found on Stepp a small amount of methamphetamine, a key to a locked restroom at the complex that had been taken from an office and a single round of handgun ammunition, the press release stated.
Police booked Stepp for felony counts of commercial burglary, possession of narcotics, possession of stolen property and possession of ammunition by a prohibited person. He was also booked with a misdeamenor count of possession of narcotics paraphernalia, according to the police.
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