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SEARCHBabbie, who left his eight-year job as a correctional sergeant with the N.C. Department of Public Safety last November for a career in automotive sales, parked behind the patrol car and emerged from his vehicle brandishing his .40 caliber Smith & Wesson towards the man attacking the officer.
An armed Good Samaritan assisted a Swansboro, NC, police officer engaged in a struggle with a resisting suspect during a Monday morning traffic stop.
Newport resident John Babbie was driving through Swansboro on N.C. 24 when he spotted a Swansboro patrol car pulled in behind a U-Haul box truck then noticed two men wrestling in the roadside ditch.
Babbie, who left his eight-year job as a correctional sergeant with the N.C. Department of Public Safety last November for a career in automotive sales, parked behind the patrol car and emerged from his vehicle brandishing his .40 caliber Smith & Wesson towards the man attacking the officer.
“I gave the command: Stop resisting, stop resisting” Babbie told The Daily News . “I then told him to roll on your belly. When he saw the barrel of my gun, he complied. I’m glad nothing bad happened,” Babbie said.
