In Los Angeles last night, a suspected car thief stopped and exited her plunder in the middle of a high-speed pursuit with police to dance to a few bars of Future’s “Where Ya At,” then returned to the car. Officers swarmed the vehicle and arrested her moments later, ABC 7 reports.
A 13-month-old baby on his way to the beach with his mom was killed Saturday when a car fleeing a drive-by shooting lost control and jumped a curb, police say.
Jake Lloyd, the 26-year-old former child actor best known for playing Anakin Skywalker in George Lucas’ Jar Jar Binks biopic Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, was arrested in South Carolina Wednesday after leading cops on a 100-plus MPH car chase. This is a video of that incident.
Bank robbers driving a stolen car and carrying at least one AK-47 led more than 50 police cars on a chase through Stockton, California yesterday after robbing a Bank of the West branch. A hostage and two of the robbers were killed in a shootout with police after the chase.
Authorities in Colorado believe a high-speed shooting chase in Texas could be connected to the shooting death of Colorado's prison chief, Tom Clements. The chase barreled through north Texas yesterday, ending in a crash about 700 miles away from the site of Clements' death on Tuesday.
Fans of police chases were in for a treat last night when a freeway pursuit of a suspected drunk driver in a red Chevrolet Camaro ended with the car slamming into the sidewall and bursting into flames.
Why do they always run?
The Police Academy in Katowice, Poland's recent budget cuts have left its students without fuel for their vehicles. The upside? The trainees now have a way to simulate very low-speed chases—by pushing the cars by hand! Watch inside.
What's that? A car chase, in Houston? Studio B With Shep Smith was on the case! It is, as always, delightful. Though it wasn't as exciting as last week's, you wouldn't know it from listening to Shep.
Shepard Smith knows that if there is a helicopter filming a car chase somewhere in the US, it is his responsibility as a journalist to immediately go live to that car chase, and narrate it, excitedly.
