VIOLENT CRIME WAS at an all-time low last week, with zero incidents such as aggravated assaults, carjackings and armed robberies being reported on the Northside.

“Our officers have worked very hard in the last couple of weeks,” said Precinct Four Cmdr. Kenneth Goodrum, noting their success during the week ending May 6. “They have done a great job.”

While Goodrum credits his officers for keeping residents safe, the commander also played a role in nabbing two suspects himself. On May 1, after receiving a call from his neighbor, Goodrum pulled into his driveway just in time to catch two crooks burglarizing his south Jackson home.

“I pulled up and saw the guy hiding in the bushes,” he said. “He tried to get away and I ran around the house to catch him.” The incident occurred at approximately 2:50 that afternoon. He quickly handcuffed the suspect, a 14-year-old boy, as another tried to escape.

“He heard me talking to him and he started to break through the back window,” Goodrum said. “He broke out, jumped my fence and got away.” The suspect made off with a flat screen television and about $25 in loose change that the crook put in his pockets.

Goodrum was unable to catch the second suspect, also a 14-year-old boy, but an investigation led to his arrest as well. Both are charged with house burglary, he said. The TV was not recovered.

WHILE GOODRUM had that issue to address, Officer Robby Huff tried to help a woman who passed out in the parking lot at Burger King on Canton Mart Road.

“I was eating lunch and a man came running through the door and told me that something was wrong and they needed an officer,”Huff said. At approximately 12 noon, an elderly woman driving a Buick apparently passed out and bumped into a fence.

When he arrived on the scene, the woman was unconscious and gasping for breath. Huff quickly ran over to the fire station two doors down and a truck responded shortly after. “By the time I got there, they were receiving calls from customers at Burger King.”

A fire truck, as well as police officers, arrived on the scene to try and revive the lady.

American Medical Response got there shortly after and transported the woman to St. Dominic Hospital. He didn’t know how the she was doing at the time of publication. Her name is not being released.

Huff doesn’t take credit for helping the woman, noting that a number of other people, from customers to emergency responders, worked to help her after her car hit the fence.

“The lady in front of her in the drive-through line said she barely bumped her in the back and she didn’t really think about it,” Huff told the Sun. “When she pulled around, the car hit her again, bounced off and rolled into the fence.”

Apparently, her foot slipped off the brake after she passed out.