Police: Alabama mayor held would-be burglar at gunpoint until officers arrived

(CBS/AP) MOBILE, Ala. - Police say the mayor of Mobile, Ala. helped foil the robbery of his own garage, after he caught the would-be burglar in the act and held him at gunpoint until officers arrived.

Jones' spokeswoman Barbara Drummond says Mayor Sam Jones returned from the grocery store Tuesday evening to find his nativity scene lit up, his truck tampered with and his garage door open.

Drummond says Jones drew his .38-caliber pistol and saw a shirtless man in the garage.

The man walked toward Jones and when the mayor warned him to stop, the burglar went to his knees, stayed there and asked for a shirt, Drummond says.

She says Jones, a Navy veteran, called police, who arrested 47-year-old James Harvey Wilkerson of Moss Point, Miss., without a problem.