Citizen Helps Officer Arrest Towering Suspect

A Cherokee County city plans to honor a Good Samaritan who helped a 5-foot, 4-inch female officer subdue a drug suspect who stands nearly 7 feet tall. Officer Julie Ann Welch stopped a car on May 10 on Highway 5 because the driver wasn't wearing a seatbelt. She says the passenger, Mike Schmidt, of Canton, was acting suspiciously so she told him to get out of the car. "He just continually disobeyed my commands," Welch tells WSB-TV. "He kept putting his hands in his pocket. He was shaking horribly. "Welch says she found cocaine and drug paraphernalia on Schmidt.
Her dashboard camera caught the following scene: As she starts to handcuff Schmidt, he struggles and tries to run but Welch refuses to let go. "I would pull him backwards off balance and try to pull his shirt, but I couldn't reach that far up," she said.

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