Neighborhood Watch members from Fairmount Mobile Estates in Sebring were instrumental in the apprehension Tuesday, Nov. 13 of a man Highlands County Sheriff’s office deputies were tracking. Information from residents helped deputies locate and arrest the man on an active warrant.

HCSO Public Information Officer Nell Hays said in a press release that a resident of Fairmount Mobile Estates called the HCSO Central Dispatch about 8 a.m. to report a suspicious person in the vicinity of a vehicle parked at an unoccupied home. While deputies were en route to the area, she said, numerous other calls came in, “essentially detailing the path of the subject.”