The Henry County (Virginia) Sheriff's Office has offered kudos to a local resident who helped track down a person they were chasing one weekend in February, the Martinsville Bulletin reported. 

Capt. Scott Barker explained that Deputy David Parnell was trying to arrest a suspect for domestic assault when the suspect fled on foot, and Parnell gave chase. “A goat from the property joined Deputy Parnell,” Barker said, and chased the man into the woods. Another deputy on the other side of the woods and the goat then flushed the suspect out of the woods, and Parnell took him into custody. 

Barker could not say if any official commendation would be offered to the goat. Nevertheless, the officers are greatful for his help in capturing “a baaad maaan.”