Burglar dies after 68-YO ties him to tree with multiple layers of

Posted: Jul 31, 2016

Johnson told authorities that someone knocked on his front door before midnight, Al.com reported. Johnson didn’t answer and continued to wait as he heard the person move to the back door and break the lock, Al.com reported. Johnson told police that he confronted the person, prompting the suspected burglar to fall or jump off the back steps, Al.com reported. Johnson subdued the man once he was on the ground and tied his hands behind his back, police told Al.com. The man was later identified as 31-year-old Cleveland Jones Gully. Police said that after restraining Gully’s hands, Johnson placed duct tape over his mouth and tied the man to a tree using rudimentary materials — electrical wire, rope from a clothesline and masking tape. “He began to tie him to the tree still in the standing up position,” Stringer told WALA, noting that Johnson used “multiple layers of masking tape that he had wrapped around his mouth and all the way around his head.” With the alleged intruder tied to a tree, Johnson told police, he returned to his neighbor’s house to alert police. ;