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Remember what your mom always told you about wearing clean underwear, in case you were in an accident and the paramedics had to remove your pants?

Good advice, but even if he was following that advice, it wouldn’t have helped a 16 year old, would-be car burglar in Centerville, Utah. The youth was trying to break into a cars around 1 a.m. Saturday, when he approached Salt Lake County sheriff’s deputy Chad Taylor’s car.

“I was in my personal vehicle, but I was in uniform,” Taylor told the Deseret News Monday. “I’d pulled in my driveway and was on the phone with another deputy when I looked in the rear-view mirror and saw this guy trying to get into my wife’s car.”

Taylor watched the teen then move up toward his car.

“Right as his hand goes to check my handle, I kick the door open,” Taylor said. “I said, ‘You’d better stop right there! Police!’ I’m not kidding, it was quiet as can be, and I heard …”

The youth turned and high-tailed it away, with Officer Taylor in pursuit.  Officer Taylor called 911 as he chased the youth and soon other officers were helping in the chase.

One officer, wearing night-vision goggles, spotted the youth enter a house, where a friend of the youth’s was having a party.  The police gained access to the house and found the suspect.

They also found that the suspect had been involved in an ‘accident.’

“You could smell him,” Taylor said. “He told us, ‘Yeah, I crapped my pants.’ ”

The youth then squealed on a friend of his, who had apparently been working with him to burglarize vehicles.

The two suspects were booked under investigation of vehicle burglary and theft.

Deseret News | Teen soils self after deputy surprises him.

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