The Point Pleasant man was visiting his daughter in the hospital in Durham, NC
POINT PLEASANT BOROUGH- A Point Pleasant Borough man helped police in North Carolina arrest a man after one of the cops was pinned to the ground by the suspect - an act the local paper called "Jersey Justice," reports said.
Keith Mizer was in North Carolina because his 1-year-old daughter was undergoing a cord blood transplant at Duke University Hospital last week, The Asbury Park Press reported.
After leaving the hospital, Mizer saw officers chasing down a suspect and watched as the suspect pinned one officer to the ground. Mizer, a bartender at Leggett's in Manasquan and a former wrestler, intervened, pulling the suspect off the officer and holding him down until more police arrived at the scene, according to reports.
The act earned him a letter of thanks from the chief of police in Durham, reports said.
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