By Charles Hack
The Jersey Journal
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Two men were arrested early Saturday morning when a Good Samaritan called police and followed the pair after they fled from a Jersey City jewelry store, reports said.
Charles Bails, 47, of Dales Avenue, and Jeffrey Nesmith, 42, of Belmont Avenue, were arrested and charged with burglary and theft. Bails was additionally charged with resisting arrest and eluding a police officer.
A woman called police Saturday around 4 a.m. to say she’d seen two men, one carrying a large blue bag, run out of Jonathan Jewelers on Journal Square, which was closed at that early hour.
While on the phone with the dispatcher, the witness followed the two individuals in her car to Pavonia and Corbin avenues, where they were stopped by cops.
Inside the car, cops found Nesmith and a blue duffel bag stuffed with nine jewelry trays containing 149 pairs of earrings and seven loose earrings of unspecified value, reports said.
The other suspect, Bails, fled on foot but was caught by cops a short distance away.