Cindy Simone makes citizen's arrest after thieves steal from friend's store

A UTAH woman has taken the law into her own hands, arresting two thieves who broke into her friend's store, reports Fox 13 News.

Cindy Simone, a small blonde woman who is about 5-feet tall and barely weighs 100 pounds, made the citizen's arrest in Odgen, Utah on Sunday moing.

The two men stole a valuable watch bracelet from her friend's antique store on September 16.

"I was mad; I was hurt," said Simone's friend, C.J Bovee.

The incident was captured on CCTV footage, and on the weekend Ms Bovee spotted the two men in a bar next to her shop. She then called her friend Simone, who recruited four men to help her and approached the suspects.

"I told them…I'm doing a citizens' arrest on behalf of the state of Utah, the city of Ogden," Simone said. "And you're coming with me until the officers pick you up."

"I told them I didn't want to ruin their day, I knew they were watching their favourite football game. But they had to go to jail."

The two men surrendered without a fight, letting Simone secure their wrists with zip ties.

They then sat the two men in plastic chairs on the footpath until police came to pick them up.

"We were very good to them; gave them water and a lot of lecturing," Simone said. "We talked to them quite a bit. The court will be a lot harder than me. I'm a nice person. But this is family. This is family, and you don't mess with the family."

Bovee said they treated the suspects well.

"We weren't treating them bad," she said. "We were just holding them until police got here."

When asked if they were afraid to approach the men, Bovee replied, "Not with Cindy! She's my sister."

"These are little thieves, I wasn't afraid of them," Simone added. "They weren't going to hurt me or anything. They might run. I didn't want to chase them. So I got some guys who could… I just told them, 'It's not nice to steal, and you're going to be in timeout for a while.'"