CRAZED SHOPLIFTING SUSPECTS CORNERED AT LIQUOR STORE

A liquor store shoplifting turned into a stone-throwing melee between two suspects who tried to flee in their car, shop employees and passersby - as a puzzled cat looked on, the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office said Thursday.

The man and woman were taken into custody after their car backed into a shop clerk trying to stop them, accelerated toward another clerk who smashed their car window with a rock - and the woman bit a "Good Samaritan," officials said. The woman also wielded pepper spray. In yet another twist, animal control took custody of a confused feline in the suspects' car at Dry Creek Liquors in the 7500-block of South University Boulevard in Centennial on Wednesday. [Photos: Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office]