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Cop Catches Most-Wanted Criminal

On June 1st, 2003, Jeff Postell, a 21-year-old rookie police officer from Murphy, North Carolina, was on routine patrol, and he did what hundreds of FBI and other law-enforcement officers had not: he arrested one of the nation's most-wanted fugitives.

Postell was working an overnight shift when he spotted a suspicious man crouching in the middle of an alley behind a shopping center. The man was none other than Eric Robert Rudolph, suspected in the bombing at Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1996.

At first Postell thought he had just nabbed a run-of-the-mill prowler, but he later discovered Rudolph was a most wanted fugitive.

"I was only doing my job," said the young officer. "It's all in a day's work. I don't deserve any credit."

The moral? Important things happen when we keep our daily routines.

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