DETROIT, MI -- Well-known Detroit reporter Charlie LeDuff of WJBK-TV, Fox 2 News, took to the streets Monday not to report on crime, but to stop one in progress.

According to Fox 2, LeDuff was at American Coney near the federal courthouse in downtown Detroit when a pickpocket, in broad daylight, swiped a cell phone from owner Grace Keros; the thief ran across the street, LeDuff gave chase and tackled the man, who was later arrested.

"I had my cell phone in my back pocket," Keros told Fox 2. "He came right up to me, leaned in, it happened so quick. He pulled the cell phone out and I was like 'he took my cell phone!'"

The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office said the suspect absconded from probation stemming from an unarmed robbery in January.

LeDuff used the incident to illustrate the need for more police in Detroit.

"Yeah we need more cops!" LeDuff said, according to Fox 2. "I'm being told we have more cops but I certainly didn't see any. The guy is wanted, he's wandering around, he's got warrants. Come on now. That's bull s***."

LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who worked for the New York Times before returning to his hometown of Detroit to work as a reporter for the Detroit News from 2008 to 2010. Since 2010, he's worked for Fox 2 as on-air reporter and is host of a syndicated national Fox news segment called "The Americans."

LeDuff won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for a New York Times series, "How Race is Lived in America," in which LeDuff reported on the war in Iraq, crossed the desert with a group of migrant Mexicans and worked inside a North Carolina slaughterhouse, according to his website (read LeDuff's bio here).

Previous books written by LeDuff include "Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts," "US Guys: The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man," and his most recent 2013 release, ""Detroit: An American Autopsy."