SPOUSE ABUSE CHASER 1990
OFFICER IN PURSUIT OF SPOUSAL ABUSE SUSPECT. SUSPECT TRIES TO RUN BUT DOESN'T GET VERY FAR. HE'S CHARGED WITH FLEEING AS WELL AS SPOUSAL ABUSE.
Semi-Truck Skids into Stalled Car
A police car pulls up to a stalled car on the shoulder of a freeway. Passengers pull items out of the stalled car. A large semi-truck skids into the car and rams it into the freeway guard rail.
Police Officer Gets Tackled
Dashcam footage of a police officer driving around a neighborhood near Dallas, Texas at night. The cop pulls up to a parked car as a man stands beside the car. After refusing instructions from the officer, the suspect reaches into the backseat and the cop becomes physical. The suspect tackles the officer and shots ring out while the officer screams in fear. The suspect flees from the scene as another police car arrives. Backup officers check on the injured officer and then run off to chase the suspect.
BLUE PICKUP GETS DESTROYED
A CLASSIC PURSUIT FROM THE 1990'S WHERE A BLUE PICK-UP TRUCK GETS CREAMED WHEN IT IS EXITING OFF THE HIGHWAY FROM A PURSUIT.
KIDS BUSTED FOR POT CHASE (1990)
KIDS GET PULLED OVER IN THE BEGINNING OF SUMMER BREAK AND GET BUSTED FOR POT.
Routine Traffic Stop Escalates to Gunfire
A police officer pulls over a vehicle for expired license plates and proceeds to argue with the driver. After a while, the driver attempts to escape the cop, but is captured. The passenger in the vehicle pulls out a gun and begins shooting at the officers. After firing his gun, the suspect flees the scene. The driver attempts to fight one of the officers before getting into his car. One of the officers attempts to hang onto the car as the suspect drives off, but he looses grip. The officer fires his gun at the car as it speeds away.
SLIPPERY STREETS PIT CHASE 2005
In December, 2005, Ervin Cook was caught driving drunk just four months after he was released from prison for causing a deadly crash in 2000. Cook pled guilty Tuesday to Felony DWI, and could face up to six years in prison. Cook was involved in the high-speed chase Dec. 7 th on Interstate 35W. His car crossed the median, heading the wrong way. State Trooper Jeremy Solie followed him into the oncoming traffic, and hit the truck, spinning it around. Capt. Tom Fraser of the Minnesota State Patrol said Solie put his life at risk to protect other drivers. "In this case, [Cook] is also drunk, he's trying to decide does he give up or not give up, does he try to run or not run, and he's doing it in a drunken fog,” says Fraser. Cook continued to flee police at speeds of up to 95 miles per hour, and exited onto Diamond Lake Road. Eventually, Cook pulls over, and a trooper hits his vehicle to block it in. Cook then told police, “If you're trying to figure out if I'm drunk, you're wasting my time. I'll save us both the time, because I am drunk." Cook is an example of problem drunk drivers. He had DWI convictions in 1987, 1990, 1996 and 1997. He was convicted of second-degree manslaughter after a drunk driving crash killed his passenger. Cook is an example of “the most dangerous people that we have in the state of Minnesota,” says Sharon Driscoll of Minnesotans for Safe Driving. Driscoll says more than 9,000 people in the state have five DWI’s on their record. Driscoll says instead of taking away a person’s driver’s license, the state should also take away license plates. "This has got to stop and we've got to do something about it,” she says.
REPEAT DRUNK DRIVER PURSUIT (2005)
IN DECEMBER 2005, ERVIN COOK WAS CAUGHT DRIVING DRUNK JUST FOUR MONTHS AFTER HE WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON FOR CAUSING A DEADLY CRASH IN 2000. COOK PLED GUILTY TO FELONY DWI, AND COULD FACE UP TO SIX YEARS IN PRISON. HE WAS INVOLVED IN A HIGH-SPEED CHASE ON DECEMBER 7TH, 2005 ON INTERSTATE 35W. HIS CAR CROSSED THE MEDIAN, HEADING THE WRONG WAY. A STATE TROOPER FOLLOWED HIM INTO THE ONCOMING TRAFFIC, AND HIT THE TRUCK, SPINNING IT AROUND. THE TROOPER PUT HIS LIFE AT RISK TO PROTECT OTHER DRIVERS. IN THIS CASE, COOK IS SO DRUNK, HE'S TRYING TO DECIDE DOES HE GIVE UP OR NOT GIVE UP, DOES HE TRY TO RUN OR NOT RUN, AND HE'S DOING IT IN A DRUNKEN FOG. cOOK CONTINUED TO FLEE POLICE AT SPEEDS OF UP TO 95 MILES PER HOUR AND EXITED ONTO DIAMOND LAKE ROAD IN MINNEAPOLIS. EVENTUALLY, COOK PULLS OVER, AND A TROOPER HITS HIS VEHICLE TO BLOCK IT IN. COOK THEN TOLD POLICE, "IF YOU'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT OF I'M DRUNK, YOU'RE WASTING MY TIME. I'LL SAVE US BOTH THE TIME, BECAUSE I AM DRUNK." COOK IS AN EXAMPLE OF PROBLEM DRUNK DRIVERS. HE HAD DWI CONVICTIONS IN 1987, 1990, 1996 AND 1997. HE WAS CONVICTED OF SECOND DEGREE MANSLAUGHTER AFTER A DRUNK DRIVING CRASH KILLED HIS PASSENGER. COOK IS AN EXAMPLE OF "THE MOST DANGEROUS PEOPLE THAT WE HAVE IN THE STATE OF MINNESOTA," SAYS SHARON DRISCOLL OF MINNESOTANS FOR SAFE DRIVING. DRISCOLL SAYS MORE THAN 9,000 PEOPLE IN THE STATE HAVE FIVE DWI'S ON THEIR RECORD. DRISCOLL SAYS INSTEAD OF TAKING AWAY A PERSON'S DRIVER'S LICENSE, THE STATE SHOULD ALSO TAKE AWAY LICENSE PLATES.
colonel sanders on dashcam 1990
officers respond to a disturbance on the side of a highway. a loose chicken. after trying to corral the chicken without much success, one officer decides on the most convenient way to end this ruckus....you can guess the rest. WHAM-O! KIND OF FUNNY IF YOU LIKE THAT SORT OF THING.
COPS INDICTED FOR ASSAULTING MOTORISTS (05/12/1995)
BAD FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED CHASE 2008
Randolph County Sheriff's Deputy Donnie Grant Jr., 33, severely injured by a suspect Oct. 14, is recovering at Atlanta Medical Center and may be released as soon as Thursday, according to Sheriff's Investigator Jimmy Holmes. Grant has several broken bones and is in a lot of pain, said Investigator Donnie Strain, whose uncle is married to Grant's aunt. "We've known each other all our lives. It's always terrible when it happens to someone you know," he said. Grant was responding to a call on County Road 434 near Butler's Mill in Graham around noon last week when he saw and stopped the gold GMC Yukon, driven by a man who had been in a domestic dispute with a female. Grant was subsequently run over and dragged 100 to 150 feet, sustaining severe injuries. His desperate call went out to law enforcement, who quickly responded from all over the area. One of those rushing to the scene was his father, Roanoke Police Capt. Donnie Grant Sr., who has worked in law enforcement for 35 years, according to Police Chief Adam Melton. Melton sent three units to the area and drove to Woodland to pick up Grant's family members to get them to the LifeFlight helicopter before it left. He had also dispatched two units to Wedowee to cover the town and the sheriff's department while officers from those departments were tracking the suspect. The quick wits and work of E-911 personnel helped track John Simons of Rockmart, Ga., better than a bloodhound. Randolph County 911 director Lisa Reed said they feel very strongly about taking care of their officers when they are out in the field. "We had received several calls from the female person involved. She told us the vehicle had OnStar. She thought it could disable the vehicle but it couldn't," Reed said. However, through a number of calls, with OnStar calling back to make sure it really was a 911 center, they explained officers were in pursuit of a vehicle with the GPS OnStar system. OnStar personnel wanted the vehicle identification number of the 2004 GMC Yukon that belonged to the female victim's father, but that information was in the vehicle. Then, they called the insurance company who had that information and would not normally release it, but in this incident everyone was working together. They advised Cleburne County of the chase and the vehicle and then the suspect got into Haralson County, Ga. They were still tracing him by the OnStar network and relaying instructions to those on the ground looking for him, Reed said. In this far-reaching search the Alabama State Troopers notified Georgia State Troopers, Reed said. "We just remained on line with GMC. I'm not sure what they saw but I assume a dot on a map. She (OnStar personnel) would say he is coming up on so and so intersection. At one point he stopped for about five minutes. She didn't know why he was stopped but that he was stopped. She would then say he is turning north or east or reaching a certain intersection. At one point she said he was stopped and the airbags deployed. We didn't know he'd crashed and gotten out shooting or he'd shot himself near the railroad tracks," Reed said. Simons died at the hospital after being transported there. The center has been involved with OnStar before when there have been accidents but nothing like this, she said. They have never tracked anyone by the vehicle's GPS. If the caller had not mentioned it they would not have known, she said. "Our dispatchers were quick thinking and said 'let's call OnStar and see if they can help.' We were very thankful we could get in touch with them and they could track him. We wanted to get him so he could take responsibility for what he had done," Reed said. "Our deputies we take pride in and they are important to us," she said. She and the operations manager heard the radio traffic and joined the two dispatchers on duty, whom she referred to as Operators 108 and 112. During all this four other 911 calls came in so they were busy, she said. "They just went into robot mode and kept 100 balls running all at one time. I'm just glad it turned out as well as it did. I've known Donnie a long time. We weren't in the same class but we were in the same school. He is a very nice guy and a very hard-working young man. It was very hard to hear him and the shape he was in," she said. She has been so impressed with how the entire community stepped up that day to get him to the helicopter and continued to support him and his family. Station 12 Woodland Fire Department, while responding to the helicopter site, also had to handle a car accident. It is required to have a fire vehicle at the helicopter's landing site for safety reasons. Of her staff, who did not want to be named, she said: "They did a wonderful job. They kept their cool and did everything that needed to be done." They have two administrative lines and at one time both those lines and three personal cell phones were in use to handle the situation. "It was pretty crazy in here. The dispatchers did a wonderful job. They had a job to do and they did it as best as I could ever hope for," she said. They handled two calls from Cleburne County and then one from Jerry's Fireworks at the intersection of 48 and 87 where another altercation took place. Dispatchers are highly trained in medical response, as well as fire and police response. That are not allowed to take any calls until that intense training is complete, she said. While Grant is not married, evidently he has a family in law enforcement, according to the many comments. Grant had worked with the Roanoke Police Department for three years, briefly with CSX Railroad and the sheriff's department about 10 years. Strain said the Randolph County Fire Association and others are taking up money for the Grant family. Deputy Mark Windsor was the last really bad incident for the sheriff's department. Windsor was killed by a drunk driver in the mid 1990s when he was on patrol, Strain said. A Marine had left a party when he struck Windsor's vehicle on County Road 51, just below Woodland. Sheriff's Investigator Greg Dendinger said the local volunteer fire departments who have participated in raising money for Grant are: Rock Stand, Corinth, A&M, Forrester's Crossroads and the Randolph County Reserves. They raised about $8,700 and the fundraising is ongoing, he said, with different organizations and churches planning events to cover Grant's medical expenses, such as the Abanda Baptist Church benefit singing Nov. 8. Melton had a flyer advertising a Nov. 22 benefit motorcycle ride for medical expenses for Grant. It is sponsored by friends, fellow police officers and Advance Auto Parts. Registration will be from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and the cost is $20 per bike and $15 for an additional rider. The ride is from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. starting and finishing at Advance Auto Parts on U.S. Highway 431. John and Robin Williams are the contacts at 863-8063, 404-889-7890 or 404-889-7892. Holmes said: "We're doing it because we love him. Folks in the county have been real generous. It makes us feel good that people out there come together in our time of need." The money being raised and deposited in Grant's bank account will help with house and vehicle payments, he said. "I think they are going to let him come home Thursday. His pelvis is fractured in two places and if it is healing good they said they might let him come home," Holmes said. When he and Sheriff Jeff Fuller went up to visit him last Thursday they were preparing to move him into a regular room, he said.
THUGS MURDER DAD AND KIDNAP DAUGHTER CHASE (2006)
OCALA - Sheila Miller told investigators Monday she thought the men accused of killing her mother and wounding her father during a home invasion Friday would be bringing her a present when she gave them directions to her parents' home. She was acquainted with two of the three men, Marion County sheriff's officials said. The violence erupted within 90 minutes of their arrival at the Villages of Springdale home on Southeast 179th Wesley Street in the south Marion County retirement community. Sheila Miller told detectives during an interview Monday that she met Renaldo D. McGirth, 18, and Theodore C. Huston, 17, two years ago through an acquaintance. They had helped her move, sheriff's Capt. James Pogue said. She told detectives she hadn't seen or talked to them since. That was until Friday, when she received a phone call from one of the men, who was sympathizing about a recent car accident that left her in a wheelchair and wanted to bring her a gift. When the men arrived, detectives said, there was a third man, later identified as Jarrord M. Roberts, 20, whom she had never seen. She invited the men inside. Sheila Miller's mother, Diana Miller, was first shot in the chest and later, fatally, in the head. James Miller, who was also interviewed Monday, told investigators he felt his daughter knew the men and didn't feel threatened when he went to take a shower. When he got out, his wife was dead. One of the men shot him in the head and left him for dead. They kidnapped Sheila Miller and fled in her parents' Ford Windstar van, stopping at automatic teller machines in The Villages, Belleview and Gainesville, sheriff's officials said. In a surveillance video from The Oaks Mall in Gainesville, Sheila Miller can be seen being pushed around the mall as they tried to get more money out of ATMs, officials said. All three men were charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, armed robbery, armed kidnapping and resisting an officer without violence. Investigators continue to investigate how Sheila Miller knew the suspects and whether she had prior knowledge of the robbery. "We have no evidence at this time to indicate she had anything to do with it," Pogue said. Pogue said that, though Sheila Miller is listed as a victim, investigators are trying to corroborate her story. Considering Sheila Miller's criminal background, Pogue said, they will continue investigating her relationship with the men. "It's definitely part of the investigation to look at this (background) and take it all into consideration," said Pogue, whose news release states Sheila Miller was arrested in Roscommon County, Mich., on drug charges in 1990. She was also arrested last year on aggravated battery charges after she used her truck to strike her ex-boyfriend, Joe Carpenter, who was walking on the side of Southeast 44th Street near Belleview. Carpenter, who sustained minor injuries, later asked prosecutors to drop the charges, which they did.