Handcuffed Man Steals Police Car; Leads Police On Chase
By: Stephen Crews
Updated: May 18, 2012
Police say a suspect
who had been shocked with a Taser gun and handcuffed stole a patrol car
and sent officers on their second chase of the morning.
Roswell
police told Channel 2's Sophia Choi they first tried to pull the man
over for a traffic stop early Friday morning at The Summit, a business
park at Highway 140 and Old Dogwood Road.
After a chase, the man
spun out at Highway 140 and Highway 9, jumped out of the car and started
running, police said. Officers shocked the man with a Taser gun,
handcuffed him and put him in the back of a patrol car. Police said
that's when the man somehow stole the cruiser and took off for a second
time.
"They see him get up from the back seat into the front seat
of the sergeant's car and he takes off. And, as you can see, he jumped
the curb and one of the officers said, 'All I could see is our patrol
car going airborne,'" said Lt. James McGee of the Roswell Police
Department.
Police said the man kept going on Highway 140,
eastbound toward Gwinnett County. He crossed over lanes and drove on the
wrong side of the road before crashing at Jimmy Carter Boulevard,
police said.
Police said none of the officers involved were injured.
The
driver will face multiple charges from the chase, as well as for the
drugs found in his car and a gun that he threw into a parking lot,
police said.
