10/23/2023 Stop Stick News: 42 Pursuit Stories from Across the Country – Police Change Pursuit Policies, Home Invasions, Shoplifters and more.

LAREDO, TX.| (KGNS) – A 20-year-old man is arrested after leading DPS on chase down I-35 for several miles.

Leroy Perez is facing charges of evading arrest.

The incident was reported at around noon Thursday when DPS Troopers saw Perez allegedly unloading people out of his vehicle near Highway 83.

DPS Troopers zeroed in on Perez near mile marker 18 on I-35 and a chase ensued

At mile marker 8, a spike strip was used to stop the driver from fleeing.

Ultimately, Perez’s tires gave out at the underpass turnaround on Mann Road and authorities were able to make an arrest.

No injuries were reported.

Local and state police chased a stolen van sought in connection with a robbery in New York through multiple municipalities Wednesday before it crashed in Norwalk, according to Connecticut State Police.

Three people were charged with various offenses in Connecticut, a state police public information officer said in an email Thursday morning. The suspects were identified as Thomas Joseph Modla, 39, of West Haven; Michael Cassella, 43, of Hamden; and Jessica Lundy, 36, of Wallingford.

NORTH PLATTE, Neb.| (KNOP) – Five people were taken into custody Tuesday following a pursuit with a stolen vehicle in Keith County.

The Nebraska State Patrol said a trooper spotted a Nissan Versa speeding westbound on Interstate 80 around 12:10 p.m. MT. The trooper also received information that the vehicle had been reported stolen in Iowa.

The vehicle exited I-80 at the Paxton interchange and the trooper attempted a traffic stop. The driver, an 18-year-old male, exited the vehicle appearing to comply with the trooper, until one of the passengers exited the vehicle and entered the driver’s seat. The original driver then entered a passenger seat they drove off westbound on I-80. The trooper initiated a pursuit.

Additional units used stop sticks to bring the car to a stop near mile marker 140, just west of Paxton. All five people inside the car were taken into custody without further incident.

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Jeffrey R. Hoolihan, 60, was indicted on two counts of improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle, obstructing official business and operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Hoolihan is out on a $5,000 bond as he awaits his next court appearance.

A caller reported that Hoolihan was “very intoxicated” and “causing a disturbance” at his home in the 1500 block of Stepney.

A police report states Hoolihan got into an argument with his girlfriend and another man as they tried to get him inside his home. They told police they let him sleep once he was inside.

Hoolihan emerged and walked outside toward his pick-up truck as police were interviewing witnesses.

Officers began approaching, believing he was attempting to leave.

A high-speed chase that started as the result of a reportedly stolen SUV in San Bernardino County ended following a successful spike strip in Montebello.|

The pursuit began around 6:40 p.m. in Rancho Cucamonga near Arrow Route and Baker Avenue, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. There, deputies attempted to make a stop on a driver in a vehicle that was reported stolen.

The chase spanned several freeways until the driver decided to get on surface streets in Monterey Park. Circling through the area until the driver traveled through East Los Angeles and eventually Montebello, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) was able to deploy spike strips that successfully stopped the driver near the intersection of Garfield Avenue and Via San Clemente.

A car chase from Lebanon to Sweet Home ended Saturday night with a Bend man facing several charges, according to Oregon state police.| Troopers said Anthony Tallon, 49, hit a vehicle on Denny School road in Lebanon, causing serious injury. Tallon allegedly tried to escape Lebanon police in his black Ford Escape. Linn County deputies threw down spike strips and took out Tallon’s front tires, but Tallon managed to start heading east on Highway 20 driving 60 miles per hour on his rims, according to OSP.

State police then tried boxing Tallon in with their patrol cars twice, they said. On the second try, Tallon allegedly rammed a patrol car and the chase ended. He was booked into Linn County jail on charges including assault, DUII, and reckless driving.

FRESNO, Calif.| (FOX26) — A man was taken into custody after a long 100mph high-speed chase through Fresno County Tuesday night.

According to the Fresno Sheriff’s Department, deputies tried to stop a white Lexus on Manning and Bethel Avenue for minor traffic violations at 10:30 p.m.

That’s when the driver took off, so deputies engaged in pursuit.

The driver made his way into Fresno on Highway 99, reaching speeds up to 100 mph.

A 40-year-old Corning man reportedly yelling and screaming on the 2100 block of Solano Street was tased when he approached a police officer with a raised fist.|

The Corning Police Department reported Mann Clayton Hunt was wanted on two misdemeanor charges out of Tehama County Superior Court when he was approached by police around 6:32 a.m., Oct. 7 near Marcos Pizza after receiving a report of Hunt’s unruly behavior.

When officers commanded Hunt to calm down, he refused and came at one of the officers with a raised fist, police said.

To prevent any possible injury, an officer tased Hunt, who then was taken into custody without further incident, according to Sgt. David Pryatel.

Monday morning, law enforcement in Minden, Louisiana, began pursuing a gray Chevy Camero, allegedly stolen from Dallas. The driver evaded the Louisiana authorities but was spotted at about 11:45 a.m. by Gregg County Deputies, according to a release from Smith County Sergeant Larry Christian.

Gregg County authorities pursued the car on I-20 to the Smith County line, where Smith County deputies took over, continuing west on I-20. A deputy constable successfully deployed a spike strip on the suspect vehicle near US 69 North, Christian said, but the suspects kept driving, exiting I-20 at Toll 49.

Officials lost sight of the stolen vehicle, but it was found abandoned on CR 4155, Christian said. A witness said they saw three suspects run from the vehicle into a field to the south, so a perimeter was set up as additional law enforcement arrived.

SWEET HOME, Ore. (KTVZ) – A 49-year-old Bend man accused of a serious-injury DUII hit-and-run crash led officers from several agencies on a pursuit Saturday afternoon – eventually on bare tire rims, after hitting spike strips — that ended with his arrest after officers were able to box in his car, Oregon State Police said.

OSP said its Albany Patrol Office troopers responded shortly before 4 p.m. to pursue a hit-and-run vehicle whose driver was fleeing Lebanon Police officers.

Troopers said Anthony Michael Tallon’s black Ford Escape hit a vehicle on Denny School Road, causing serious injuries, and he then fled the scene. Tallon was quickly located by Lebanon officers, but refused to stop, prompting the pursuit.

Linn County sheriff’s deputies deployed hollow spike strips that flattened the Escape’s front tires, but he kept heading east on Highway 20, troopers said.

“We finally get to score one for the good guys,” Southwick Police Sgt. Thomas Krutka said about the town’s police working with Connecticut’s Suffield Police Department to apprehend four youths suspected in the most recent vehicle burglaries.

Krutka said the patrolling officer spotted an Infiniti G37 sedan reported stolen out of the Plainfield, Connecticut, at about 1:15 a.m., that was parked in an area on South Longyard neighborhood and near a home with one of its garage doors open.

As the officers drove up, four individuals, later learned to be youths between 14 and 16 years of age, jumped into the sedan and took off, Krutka said.

The officers attempted to stop the sedan, but the driver continued to flee, he said.

At that point, Krutka said the officers radioed ahead and had another officer set up spike strips on South Longyard Road just north of the Connecticut line.

The sedan ran over the spike strip, which slowly deflated the tires on the driver’s side, he said.

However, the sedan continued to flee south, crossing the state line on Warnertown Road until it stopped in the area of North Stone Street, according to a press release from Suffield Police.

Once stepped, four occupants took off in different directions, according to Suffield Police.

CHEYENNE, Wyo.| (Wyoming News Now) – Saturday, October 14, at approximately 2:13 a.m., Cheyenne Police Officers made a traffic stop on a Chevrolet pickup truck near the 1200 block of Ames Avenue. The truck was traveling through downtown at a high rate of speed and failing to maintain its lane.

The driver, later identified as Evan Kearsley, 35, of Kent, Washington, pulled the vehicle over at the intersection of Ames Avenue and Parsley Boulevard. During the traffic stop, Kearsley was instructed to remove his keys from the ignition, but instead, he put the vehicle into drive and accelerated away from officers.

Officers immediately pursued the vehicle, following south on Parsley Boulevard and then east on West College Drive. Kearsley proceeded to drive recklessly at times crossing into oncoming traffic and running red lights.

Brian Battick, 21, is set for a Jan. 11 preliminary hearing in Evanston Circuit Court, where he can argue that authorities didn’t have probable cause to arrest him when they chased him into Wyoming from Utah on Interstate 80 earlier this month.

Meanwhile, Battick’s co-defendant Vernon Laws, who is 20 this year, waived his preliminary hearing Friday and is being prosecuted in the felony-level Uinta County District Court.

Two Spike Strips And A Run 

It started as a high-speed chase in Utah.

At 10:13 p.m. Oct. 5, Wyoming Highway Patrol Trooper Kyle Coudriet learned from dispatch that Summit County, Utah, authorities had lost sight of a red Dodge Charger on I-80, heading east into Wyoming.

Coudriet sat in the median with his rear-facing radar activated. By 10:38 p.m., a red Dodge Charger hurtled past at 87 mph, according to Coudriet’s evidentiary affidavit filed in the case.

Sun Prairie, Wis.| (WMTV) – A Walmart Supercenter associate in Sun Prairie is suffering from multiple stab wounds after being attacked by a man Monday night, police reported.

Sun Prairie Police Department said just after 10:15 p.m. Monday, the suspect, Miguel Angel Barajas-Ceballos, 22, of Sun Prairie, walked into the Walmart and started attacking the victim, a 36-year-old man.

The victim was stabbed multiple times before Barajas-Ceballos drove away. Sun Prairie Police Dept. Lt. Ryan Cox said most of the victim’s stab wounds were on his back and head.

Police determined the suspect was driving a silver sedan, which was spotted near W. Main Street and O’keeffe Avenue. Officers tried to pull the car over, but it continued driving onto Highway 151, reaching speeds of more than 100 mph. Police continued to chase the vehicle to Madison, where officers requested assistance from neighboring agencies.

BRENTWOOD, Mo.| (KMOV) – Brentwood city leaders voted Monday to change the city’s police tactical pursuit policy, giving officers more leeway to chase suspects of violent crime.

Police will now have the ability to use spike strips on carjacking suspects, as well as those that flee from police.

The sentiment of Brentwood residents First Alert 4 found was clear: police should chase suspects of crime so they don’t keep committing those same crimes.

“I don’t care if it’s a carjacking, a robbery or a shooting. The more you let them get away with it, the more they do,” said Laurel Ziehl.

“If they want to pursue more aggressively, I don’t have a problem with it,” said Rick Nolls.

Police were called to the 700 block of 6th Avenue West shortly after 8 p.m. Sunday on a report of a hit and run of an unattended vehicle. Officers quickly found the vehicle and attempted a traffic stop but the vehicle fled and there was a chase.

Police used stop sticks to stop the vehicle at the intersection of 32nd Avenue and Veterans Boulevard.

The driver and two passengers fled on foot. The male driver was arrested and transported to juvenile detention on charges of possession of a stolen vehicle and fleeing in a motor vehicle. Additional charges are possible.

The two passengers were not detained.

San Angelo – One man is in custody after a vehicle pursuit Saturday evening in the Southeast side of San Angelo. Forty-year-old Samuel Sutton was taken into custody and is facing multiple felony charges in connection to this incident.

An SAPD patrol officer attempted to conduct a traffic stop on a Dodge Ram pickup after the pickup nearly collided with the officer’s patrol unit near the intersection of State Street and Paint Rock Road. The driver of the pickup failed to stop and led officers on an almost 10-minute vehicle pursuit in the Southeast part of town.

An officer with the SAPD’s Anti-Crime Unit was able to position himself in front of the pursuit and successfully deploy “Stop Sticks” in front of the suspect vehicle. The suspect vehicle drove over the “Stop Sticks” and this resulted in the deflation of the vehicle’s front left tire.

Due to the successful “Stop Stick” deployment, the pursuit safely ended near the intersection of Preusser and Emerick Street. As we reported Sunday, Sutton was taken into custody and was charged with the below offenses:

SUFFIELD — Officers apprehended an underage girl on Sunday after she and four others drove a stolen car into town from Massachusetts and then attempted to run away, police said.

Suffield police said the suspects were driving a vehicle that was reportedly connected with a series of car burglaries in Southwick, Mass.

Police Air Wing spotted an allegedly stolen black Holden Cruze wagon driving erratically on High Street, Lalor just before midnight on Monday.

The air wing maintained an aerial platform with the Holden allegedly clocking speeds up to 180 kilometres an hour.

Police followed from a distance and stop sticks were deployed on the Western Ring Road about 1.40am on Tuesday.

The wagon exited onto Keilor Park Drive, Keilor East and came to a stop.

The driver and passenger surrendered to police and were arrested at the scene.

A Lalor boy, 17, and a 16-year-old Mernda boy were charged with several offences including theft of a motor vehicle.

WAUWATOSA, Wis. – A police chase in Wauwatosa starts, stops and starts all over again before ending in a crash. FOX6 News has obtained the dashcam and bodycam video showing police patience, theft suspects bailing and a K-9 finding a woman now charged.

Police released dash camera video from a chase on Oct. 4. Officials say it all started as a retail theft investigation at the Dick’s Sporting Goods on W. Burleigh Avenue.

A sedan stops in front of an officer trying to pull the driver over.

WEST FARGO, N.D.| (Valley News Live) – A minor has been arrested after a police chase in West Fargo.

At around 8:15 p.m. Sunday October 15, West Fargo Police responded to the report of a hit and run of an unattended vehicle in the 700 block of 6th Avenue W.

Police say when they arrived Officers quickly located the suspected vehicle and attempted a traffic stop. The vehicle fled, beginning a police chase. As the chase continued Officers used stop sticks to successfully bring the vehicle to a stop at the intersection of 32nd Avenue and Veterans Boulevard.

Police then say the driver and two passengers exited the vehicle and fled on foot. The driver, a juvenile male, was arrested and transported to juvenile detention on charges of possession of a stolen vehicle and fleeing in a motor vehicle. Additional charges are possible. The suspect has not been identified.