Body cam captures struggle in Tooele with ‘Proud Boys’ fugitive
May 4, 2024, 2:13 PM
TOOELE, Utah — During a recent search for a fugitive inside a home on East Bench, police said they suddenly found themselves in a potentially dangerous struggle with someone else. It was a wanted fugitive from out-of-state they had no idea was in town.
Body camera footage obtained by KSL TV captured the encounter, in which police said the man grabbed for their guns twice.
“If this was a situation where maybe we only had one or two officers there, it could be a completely different story,” Tooele City Police Cpl. Colbey Bentley said on Friday.
Map of East Bench
On April 23, according to court and jail documents, police were looking for 37-year-old fugitive Amber Pyne on an active warrant for her arrest.
When they pulled up to a home on Haylie Lane, officers said she went inside, as did another man.
Documents stated as officers searched for Pyne in the house, they spotted a man, later identified as 33-year-old Gordon Wesley Cronk, exiting a basement door. Cronk, officers wrote, told them he didn’t see Pyne when he was in the basement.
According to a probable cause statement, officers subsequently located Pyne “hidden under several boxes and random household possessions” that had been stacked on top of her …
