Speeding Drunk Hits Median (2009)
Police in Streetsboro also released footage of another high speed chase. This one from early on the morning of January 3rd, along Route 14. Police were pursuing the man for speeding when he slammed into the median. He continued down the highway for another half-mile or so before stopping. He was arrested and found to be drunk.
THE NOSE KNOWS HE’S LOOPY 2009
POLICE RELEASE DASHCAM VIDEO OF SUSPECTED DRUNK DRIVER FAILING A NOSE TOUCH FIELD SOBRIETY TEST MISERABLY. FUNNY VIDEO.
CLIPPING A COP CAR 2009
A motorcyclist is okay after his wild ride and sudden stop was caught on a police cruiser's dash cam. The officer was just starting through the intersection at 9 Mile and Woodward when the cycle slammed into the front quarter panel. The force of the impact sent the rider flying off the bike, and over the hood of the car. The man did get up and was walking around seconds later. A second motorcyclist was also involved in the incident. He took off from the scene.
Speeding Cop Overturns Cruiser (2009)
Dramatic video shows speed may have been a big factor in the crash of a police car three weeks ago. Dashboard camera footage shows the officer was going 100 miles-an-hour before he lost control. Officer T. Horne was on his way to help another officer, who had arrived at a call and wasn't answering his radio. The video shows the view from the patrol car's dashboard heading east on Bridge Street zipping through red lights and around other cars. Notice the number in the bottom right corner, that's the officer's speed. It shows he got up to 99 miles-per-hour as he approached a group of cars, then, slowed down briefly to get around them then, speeded back up again. Moments later, as he was about to pass another car on his right, he topped out at 100 when he lost control on a hill. The camera kept rolling until the end. This is what it looked like afterwards. The patrol car, overturned. Officer Horne was rushed to a hospital, but incredibly, was not seriously injured. There are no policies limiting how fast officers can drive on the way to an emergency. But police say they'll review the accident to see if the officer was at fault. If so, he faces some kind of discipline. Police Report: "Unit #1 was responding code 3 to an emergency call. Unit #1 was traveling E/B in the 6500 block of Bridge. Unit #1 swerved to the left to avoid a motor vehicle that was in lane #2 of E/B bidge. Unit #1 lost control and began sliding to the left and then compensated back to the right. Unit #1 slide to the right and struck the south curb line and went airborne. Unit #1 then struck a utility light pole."
JUVIE CHASE AND CRASH INTO POLE 2009
Cruiser cam video has been released involving a 14-year-old who led officers on a chase. Police said the chase happened Wednesday night when the teen stole his grandmother’s car. Officers said the teen lost control and hit a pole at the intersection of Packard Drive and Kittridge Road. According to police, officers talked with the boy’s grandmother to see if anything else was taken from her house. The teen now faces charges of auto theft and failure to comply.
MAN WITH VERTIGO (2009)
Vero Beach police Tuesday released the video of sobriety tests taken by Indian River County Administrator Joe Baird when he was charged with driving while under the influence of alcohol last month. Police allege Baird was driving 43 mph in a 30 mph zone in his private car and crossed a center line before an officer stopped him late May 16 on 21st Street. Baird twice refused to take a Breathalyzer test and failed several roadside sobriety tests, police said. He is pleading not guilty to the charges. The County Commission listened to presentations about the matter during Tuesday morning’s meeting and took no action. Baird remains on the job.
HAIL TO THE DRUNK CHIEF 2009
There is new information on the superintendent of Milwaukee Archdiocese schools who was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving. According to court records, David Lodes told Delafield police that he was on his way home from an alcoholic’s anonymous meeting when he was pulled over near Highway 83 last month. Police said that the 59-year-old had a .308 blood alcohol level, more than three times the legal driving limit and failed several field sobriety tests. This was Lodes’ second drunken driving arrest. He spent 14 years as the superintendent of the Arrowhead School District.
HEAD RAMMING THE STREET SIGN 2009 / DUI FAIL
POLICE RELEASE DASHCAM VIDEO OF SUSPECTED DRUNK DRIVER FAILING FIELD SOBRIETY TEST MISERABLY AS HE NEARLY FALLS OVER AND BASHES HIS HEAD INTO A STREET SIGN. FUNNY VIDEO.
YANKEES PITCHER CAUGHT ON DASHCAM 2009
Police video shows Joba Chamberlain's drunken ramblings: Drunken Joba mocks Berra in police video. Joba Chamberlain pokes fun at Yankees Hall of Famer Yogi Berra and shows no love for New York motorists in a police video of his DUI arrest last October. The New York Daily News, the New York Post and Newsday each reported in Wednesday's editions that the video, uncovered by thesmokinggun.com, shows the 23-year-old Yankees pitcher making fun of Berra's diminutive stature. "He might not be as tall as the front of your car," Chamberlain said of Berra to the Nebraska state trooper who arrested him. Dave Kaplan, a spokesman for Berra, said that the 83-year-old former catcher was notified of what Chamberlain said, Newsday reported.
COUGAR SIGHTING IN RESIDENTIAL AREA (12/6/2009)
A north metro neighborhood of Champlin, MN is on alert after the DNR confirmed that a cougar was roaming THE AREA. The big caT was caught on police dashcam during the early morning hours. Two days later a cat was spotted in Vadnais Heights. December 11, cougar tracks were found in Sunrise Park in Stillwater. DNR officials believe all three sightings were of the same cat. Dan Stark with the DNR said, "I think it's likely it's the same cat. I don't expect to see more than one cougar in the metro at the same time."
Clever Guy Slams On Brakes (2009)
A wild police chase, early Thursday morning, on Highway 10 in Greenwood ended with the suspect escaping from a Sebastian County sheriffs deputy on foot. Fort Chaffee police were investigating a separate incident on Highway 96 when a white GMC pickup truck pulled over on the side of the road and turned its lights off. When authorities went to check on the vehicle, the driver sped off sparking a chase. The driver ended up going eastbound on Highway 10 forcing a Sebastian County sheriffs deputy to take over the pursuit. "The suspect's vehicle did slam on its brakes causing the deputy to strike them in the rear end," said Corporal John Miller of the Sebastian County Sheriff's Department. The chase continued and moments later, the suspect hit his brakes again, but this time his vehicle veered to the left. The deputy's squad car slammed into the vehicles rear-left side which forced it to go airborne at a 45-degree angle. "After that our deputy was taken out of the pursuit and (the suspect's) vehicle continued into Logan County," said Miller. Sebastian County Sheriff's deputies identified the driver as Arbury Charles Bowerman. Miller said the vehicle Bowerman was driving was stolen from Belle Point Beverages Inc. out of Lavaca, Ark. Miller said it's a miracle no one was killed as a result of the suspect's bold moves. "Anytime a person takes absolute disregard for his own safety, he's not going to care about anybody else," he said. Authorities say Bowerman may be armed, because they found ammunition inside the vehicle he abandoned. If you know his whereabouts, you're asked to call you local police department. Bowerman faces charges of theft of a vehicle, felony fleeing and aggravated assault.
SUSPECTS ASKS COPS TO SHOOT (2009)
"It's unbelievable. It was very dangerous for the public." That's how Alpharetta Police spokesman George Gordon describes an early Friday morning high speed chase that ended with the suspect asking police to shoot him. Gordon says one of his department's officers tried to pull over a weaving Mercedes on Windward Parkway around 1:45 am. But the driver, Thomas Lackey, of Marietta took off instead, turning south on Georgia 400 and hitting speeds of more than 130 miles an hour. Lackey's Mercedes can be seen suddenly exiting off GA 400, narrowly missing another car, and turning right onto Old Milton Parkway. He soon loses control, crosses the median and continues driving on the wrong side of the road until his Mercedes sideswipes a police cruiser and crashes. Ironically, the chase ends almost in front of the Alpharetta Police Headquarters. Right after he wrecks, Lackey bolts from his damaged Mercedes, slams the door and charges toward officers who then tackle him to the ground. Other than sirens, there's no other audio on the video, but according to Gordon, his officers say Lackey shouted, "Shoot me! shoot me!" One of the officers uses a stun gun on him instead after Lackey refuses to quit fighting. Now instead of just a DUI charge, Lackey also faces charges of fleeing, resisting arrest, aggravated assault with a motor vehicle and numerous traffic charges.
Roof Explosion Caught On Tape - 2009
A Kernersville police officer's dashboard camera caught a burning home as it suddenly exploded Wednesday morning. Kernersville Fire Chief Walt Summerville said the explosion was the result of a backdraft. Two Dell employees leaving their second-shift jobs saw the home in flames on Union Cross Rd. and stopped to wake up the people inside. Everyone got out safely, but as the family stood outside watching, firefighters made one last search inside. Seven people escaped the home shortly before it exploded. Investigators said the fire, which likely started before 2 a.m., appeared to have started somewhere around the fireplace, which was in use Tuesday night. The family, which ranges in age from 1 to 60 years old, is staying with relatives for now. The house had smoke detectors, but the fire chief said he wasn't sure if they worked. Brothers Chris and Allen Bell, the two Dell workers who stopped, said they simply did what came naturally. Their father is a firefighter, so they know the danger of a burning home.
DWI LAWYER’S DASHCAM A DISGRACE 2009
An Albuquerque DWI attorney fighting his own drunken-driving charge failed Tuesday to convince a Metropolitan Court judge to move his trial and throw out police video of his arrest. An Albuquerque police officer's dashcam recorded John Wayne Higgins on Jan. 27 at 12th Street an Mountain Road NW. Higgins is alleged to have been very drunk and then belligerent as the officer questioned him about striking a curb and blowing out a tire. Higgins claims he wasn't driving the car that night although witnesses said they saw him stagger across the street after hitting the curb. "This will be the last best day of the rest of your life," Higgins can be heard saying on video recorded inside the patrol car after his arrest. "You're done. And if you think I'm kidding you're (expletive) crazy. "You little slime bag crack criminal killer."
LAUGHING OFFICERS GET T-BONED (2009)
Dashcam video has been released after two Kansas City Missouri police officers were in a car accident while responding to a call. It's the second wreck this week involving officers. The two officers were responding to a call near 53rd and Cleveland when they were t-boned by a 27-year-old female driver. The cruiser was pushed into the yard of a duplex, and one officer had to be cut out. Police said the other driver was given a sobriety test at the scene and was taken into custody. One officer had serious, but not life-threatening injuries. They both were taken to the hospital and later released. The driver was arrested and police said she was driving with a suspended license, and failed a sobriety test.
Chase with no Light, Sirens - 2009
A Lee County Sheriff's deputy was disciplined for breaking the rules during a high-speed chase in early January. Dash cam video shows the pursuit, which reached speeds of well over 100 miles an hour. Deputy Thomas Chappell's dash camera recorded the five minute pursuit. At times, the chase reached 130 miles per hour. WATCH THE VIDEO (PLAYS AT RIGHT) During most of the chase, Chappell didn't use his emergency lights or siren. "Clearly it's a violation of sheriff's office policy and procedure," said Tony Schall of the Lee County Sheriff's Office. An internal investigation found Deputy Chappell guilty of neglect of duty. The three year veteran of the sheriff's office reported seeing Antonio Domenech going about 100 mph on US 41 near Island Park in south Fort Myers about 2:20 am on January 4th. The deputy turned on his dash cam while trying to catch the motorcycle. The majority of the footage shows Chappell going 130 miles per hour- changing lanes and passing cars without emergency lights or sirens to warn the public. Once he did turn on his lights, almost 10 miles later- the motorcycle slowed down, lost control and crashed. You can see the driver jump on the hood of the deputy's car and try to run away. Chappell used a taser on him- but Domenech kept resisting. The deputy used the taser again, yet Domenech still managed to get away. With the assistance of backup, Domenech was caught and taken to jail. The sheriff's office says Chappell shouldn't have pursued Domenech without permission from his sergeant, without emergency lights and sirens, while passing cars without, "due regard for the safety of the public." "It's just a safety issue so people, on-coming traffic have more of a visibility factor," said Schall. Chappel was suspended for one week and transferred out of the traffic unit. He is now a district patrol deputy.
UP A CREEK CHASE 2009
A teenager is facing a slew of charges for a high-speed chase that stretched across three counties in East Tennessee. Jonathan Kimbrough is accused of leading officers on the chase Friday night in a pickup truck that was hauling a boat. It started when an officer approached the truck and boat in Kingston. Investigators say that's when Kimbrough sped off. That sparked an "hour-plus" pursuit all the way to McMinn County at speeds topping 95 miles an hour. It was all caught on tape. Investigators say Kimbrough nearly ran over one officer and tried to ram other vehicles. It wasn't until the chase was over and Kimbrough was in custody that officers found another man had been holding on for dear life inside the boat. "The final straps were not attached to the boat. It could have come off at any time," said Dan Hicks, a spokesman with TWRA. "It was a bad scenario." No one was injured in the chase. Kimbrough is out of jail on a $20,000 bond. His charges include evading arrest, reckless endangerment, aggravated assault and DWI.
SPARKS FLY IN SPINNING CHASE 2009
Two theft suspects are recovering after police said they stole an ATM from a gas station, lead police on a chase and then crashed over the weekend. Just after midnight Monday, the burglary alarm went off at the Mobile gas station on 12 Mile and Ryan roads. Police officers saw the thieves leaving the gas station in a silver Chevy Malibu and chased them for more than 30 minutes through two counties, including the wrong way on Interstate 75. Warren police released dashcam video of the chase Monday afternoon. "You have the chase, the pursuit, starting right from the beginning from the original location of the breaking and entering to the time that they were taken down and the arrest was made," said Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer. The video shows the people in the car throwing out stolen lottery tickets and cash during the chase and broadsiding another vehicle at McNichols Road and Oakland Street in Detroit. The theft suspects eventually crashed at another gas station and were arrested. The two have been charged with five felony counts including fleeing and eluding police. Both suspects were taken to an area hospital for treatment. They are both expected to be OK and arraigned Tuesday.
DUI WOMAN THINKS COPS ARE NAZIS 2009
POLICE ARE CHASING DOWN A VERY DRUNK FEMALE DRIVER. THEY CHASE HER ALL THE WAY TO THE DALLAS FORT WORTH AIRPORT AND WHEN THEY GET THEIR HANDS ON HER SHE ACCUSES THE COPS OF BEING NAZIS!
NINE YEAR OLD LEADS CHASE 2009
A nine-year-old boy led police on a chase in Indiana over the weekend and it was caught on tape. Police in Greenfield, Ind. were in hot pursuit late Saturday night off Interstate 70, just east of Indianapolis. Police dash-cam video shows the boy swerving all over the road and going up to 80 miles per hour. At one point, he runs off the side of the road and down an embankment. He continues to drive on the side of the road for a while, before coming back onto the road. Police from four different departments joined the chase and after about 15 miles, they finally stopped the boy by using spike strips. Once police opened the driver's side door, they were shocked to see a boy just barely big enough to see over the steering wheel. The boy told police he stole the keys to his parents' car out of his mother's purse because his parents had told him to come in for the night and he wasn't done playing yet. "This young man, I guess was upset because his mom and dad told him it was time to come in, late [Saturday] night around 8 p.m., and he was upset because they told him he had to come in and quit playing. So he was mad and took off," Asst. Chief Major Derek Towle said. Neither the boy nor any of the officers who were chasing him were hurt, but police did arrest the boy. He's being charged in juvenile court for fleeing law enforcement.
TEEN CRASHES INTO YARD 2009
A suspect and a passenger in his car are recovering from injuries they sustained in a crash after fleeing police. The Willoughby Police Department charged Thomas Kovach of Cleveland with reckless driving, felony fleeing and OVI. Police saw Kovach driving 65 mph in a 35 mph zone on Route 20 in Willoughby. They began following the vehicle and witnessed the driver go through numerous red lights on Mentor Ave. as the car continued westbound on Euclid Ave. The driver then traveled northbound on Route 91 into Eastlake. While on Vine Street, the car went between two poles and struck a metal bench and fence. The police continued to pursue the vehicle down Vine St and then to E. 348th St., where the vehicle struck a building. The vehicle continued on E. 348th where it then crashed through a fence, flipped upside down in a backyard, trapping the driver and passenger. Kovach and his passenger were transported to Hillcrest Hospital where they were treated for non life-threatening injuries.
TROOPER’S HEAD ON HEADACHE 2009
A police officer who had just taken one impaired driver off the highway suddenly encountered another coming right at her on the Interstate in a near-miss recorded by a dash camera. > On Saturday night July 18 Officer Kierstan Harzewski had arrested a suspected drunken driver in Pecos and was taking him to the San Miguel County Detention Center in Las Vegas. That's when headlights suddenly appeared on her side of Interstate 25. > That didn't sit too well with the Harzewski. > "Don't ask me anymore questions because I'm so angry right now," she told Dominique Vigil after arresting him. "When you sober up I'll show you the video." > Vigil, 24, of Las Vegas admitted to taking the powerful narcotic Lortab 20 minutes earlier. > "We were actually coming back from Santa Fe, and I took one," he can be heard saying on the video. > Vigil attempted to complete the field-sobriety test and missed a number. He also couldn't seem to follow instructions to stop counting backward at 27 and stop reciting the alphabet at W. > "He could have killed himself," State Police lt. Eric Garcia told KRQE News 13. "He could have killed his girlfriend, as the officer indicated. > "He could have killed the officer and the prisoner she had in her custody." > Garcia said in 13 years on the force he's never seen dashcam video like this. > Vigil's trouble didn't end with the DWI arrest. While taking blood from Vigil a bag of the tranquilizer Zanax fell out of his sock, according to police. > He has several prior arrests with drug possession, child abuse and aggravated battery among them and now faces plenty of new charges. > And because he was on probation for drug possession, he's being held in jail on a no-bond hold.
LAW ENFORCEMENT’S A DRAG 2009
A driver who was pulled over Friday night by an Ocala police corporal sped away with the officer's feet hanging out the driver's side door of his Volkswagen convertible. The driver, Bradford Sheldon, 44, of Gainesville, also tried to push Cpl.George Hunley out of the car as he drove at speeds in excess of 80 mph, according to the Police Department. Hunley, Sheldon and Officer Matt Sams, whose foot was run over, received minor injuries. Sheldon was charged with attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, kidnapping, aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest with violence, two counts of resisting arrest without violence, reckless driving and driving on a suspended license. He declined an interview request from the Starbanner. Here's an account of the episode based on information from the Police Department: It all started shortly before 11 p.m. Friday, when Hunley noticed a blown headlight on a Volkswagen convertible in the 600 block of Northwest 10th Street. Hunley, who had been traveling in the opposite direction, turned around and stopped the VW in the 800 block of North Pine Avenue. Sheldon told the officer that he did not have his driver's license. He reportedly told Hunley it was a valid license and then gave him a name and Social Security number. Hunley checked the information, learned that it was false and called for backup. Then Hunley approached Sheldon, who buckled in the driver's seat, and asked for the keys. Sheldon refused to hand them over. Hunley reached in and tried to get Sheldon out of the car. Then a dashcam video shows the corporal, along with Officer Matt Sams, trying once again to remove Sheldon from the car. During the struggle, Sheldon drove off. A back tire rolled over one of Sams' feet. Hunley's upper body was in the car as the two continued to struggle. His feet were dangling outside. Hunley repeatedly told Sheldon to stop the car, but Sheldon continued to drive, telling the officer to "just get out," a police report says. They continued to struggle, with both men holding onto the steering wheel, the car door open and the VW traveling more than 80 mph. The report says Sheldon swerved the vehicle toward a guard rail at the bridge in the 600 block of North Pine Avenue. The car was damaged when it hit a raised median in the 900 block of South Pine Avenue. Hunley then turned the steering wheel to the left, which made the car turn onto Southwest 10th Street, where it stopped. Sheldon crawled out the passenger side window to escape. Hunley pulled out his Taser and stunned him. It appeared to have no effect, as Sheldon continued to resist. Hunley tackled him and placed him under arrest. Sheldon had just been release on Oct. 24 from Marion Correction Institution after serving more than a year for credit card fraud and cocaine possession.
COPS DASH TO SAVE LIVES 2009
Deputy Brian Reimsnyder might not feel like a hero, but he and three other deputies are being called that for their actions -- the entire incident captured on dashboard camera. "Your worse fear is not to be able to get to the person and then actually have them burn right there in front of your eyes," Reimsnyder said. "That's a scary thought." Reimsnyder said the driver and passenger "were kind of out of it" when he tried to help. "They were conscious, but they obviously both were in pain and both appeared to be injured pretty bad," Reimsnyder said. When Deputy John Lane arrived at the scene last Tuesday, the other deputies were pulling the passenger out of the burning car. Lane then tried to help the driver. "I climbed in from the passenger side and tried to remove her, but was unsuccessful due to her being so pinned into the car," Lane said. The car caught fire after hitting a tree early in the morning in the 700 block of Old Dixie Highway. Deputies had to use four fire extinguishers to fight the blaze as they waited for fire-rescue crews to arrive and use the Jaws of Life to get the driver out. Sheriff Deryl Loar said he believes if his deputies hadn't come to the rescue, the results would have been different.