Ah Jeez, I thought everyone knew that when you hollered "Police" you were calling them---not saying you were one. Should have left out the Boise part. Flapping his jaw and admitting to the indescretion wasn't a good idea, either.
Don't think a well intentioned citizen should be charged if, in fact, he was trying to stop a crime. I'm betting he won't be.
When do I intervene? When not doing so would create problems looking at myself in the mirror.
Intervening in a duffel bag incident unpossesed of the facts, with no one's life in danger--- or in a matter where some one was holding someone else at gun point, after happening along (unpossessed of the facts) wouldn't qualify. That's what common sense and cell phones are for.
