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Byline: Melissa Manware
CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ Jeffrey Scott Postell, the rookie cop who captured Eric Rudolph without even knowing it, called his mother early Saturday to tell her the search for one of the country's most elusive bombing suspects is over.
Nancy Postell said her 21-year-old son didn't mention he'd made the arrest.
"I saw it on TV," she said by telephone Saturday afternoon. "He told me he was caught, but didn't say he did it. He's not a bragger or boaster. That's the way he is."
Postell has worked for the nine-member Murphy Police Department for less than a year. He was on patrol about 3:30 a.m. Saturday when he spotted a man behind a Save-A-Lot grocery store in the little mountain town.
As Postell drove up, the man ran behind some milk crates. Postell thought he'd interrupted a break-in.
He pulled his gun because the man had something in his hand he thought was a gun.