ideo released by sheriff’s deputies in Georgia shows a high-speed chase that ends with a suspect losing his pants and then his freedom.
Deputies with the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office shared a video taken by a cruiser’s dashboard camera. In the p…
ideo released by sheriff’s deputies in Georgia shows a high-speed chase that ends with a suspect losing his pants and then his freedom.
Deputies with the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office shared a video taken by a cruiser’s dashboard camera. In the post, deputies said that they tried to pull a car over because of both the smell of marijuana and the car had no valid insurance. The driver refused to stop, and the video shows the car taking off and hitting speeds above 120 miles per hour at times. At one point in the video, the driver “brake-checked” the deputy, trying to make the deputy crash.
“I relied on my training and in being in pursuits before. Our training division does a good job preparing us for incidents like this,” Forsyth Deputy First Class Enrique Escolano told WSB-TV.
The chase, which continued for several miles, ended when deputies successfully deployed a spike strip on the highway, puncturing the car’s tires, WSB-TV reported.
Video shows the deputy using his own vehicle to box the suspect in, but the suspect jumps out of the driver’s side door and begins trying to scale the median wall. That’s when other deputies race into the frame, grabbing the suspect by the pants and pulling first the suspect’s pants, then the suspect, down.
Deputies identified the suspect as Demetris Clay, and told WSB-TV they found guns, fake identification, credit cards, and an array of illegal drugs including cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, and ecstasy.
“That’s right up there with the most memorable for sure. You don’t encounter stops like that every day, and to finish on the right side of the law and get that stuff off the streets, it made me feel really good,” Escolano told WSB-TV.
