Bodybuilder Mikaela Kellner was sunbathing in a park in Stockholm with friends when they were approached by the alleged thief, who was posing as a magazine seller.
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When Swedish police officer Mikaela Kellner nabbed a pickpocketing suspect Tuesday, she had no idea the arrest would be so, er, arresting.
This is the moment an off-duty female police officer pinned a pickpocket to the ground after sprinting after him in a bikini.
However, after they declined to buy anything he began behaving strangely.
He was persistent, and at one point put his magazines down on top of a mobile phone belonging to one of the sunbathers.
After he left, one friend noticed her phone was missing. “But as soon as he left one of my friends said ‘where did my mobile phone go?'” Kellner told The Local on Thursday.
Sitting on the ground, waiting for the apprehended pickpocket to be taken away by some on-duty colleagues, she realised the sight might be quite amusing.
“I just acted on instinct”, she said.
“If I had been naked I would have intervened as well”, she said. “He tried to get away so we held onto him harder”.
But she confessed: ‘I would have stepped in no matter what my outfit.
A photo posted to Instagram of a bikini-clad woman with her knee on the back of a face-down person in what appears to be a public park has gone viral.
Kellner is also a fitness enthusiast and spends her spare time doing power-lifting and crossfit.
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That’s when Kellner – wearing only a bikini – sprang into action.
