WHEN WE CAN FINALLY SEE SOME RELIEF FROM THAT HEAT. HI, I AM ANDRE ANA
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>>Gio: BREAKING NEWS AT THE TOP
AT NOON.
A POLICE PURSUIT COMING TO AN
END IN OPA-LOCKA.
>>Adriana: YOU SAW IT ON LOCAL
10.
LOCAL 10 REPORTER MICHAEL PUTNEY
IS LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM WITH THE
BREAKING DETAILS.
>>Michael: ADRIANA, GIO, A WILD
SCENE.
ALL STARTED WITH AN ARMED
CARJACKING.
IT HAPPENED ON NORTHWEST 62nd
STREET AND 26th AVENUE IN
NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE.
THE SUSPECT LED POLICE ON A
CROSS COUNTRY CHASE DIPPING IN
AND OUT OF BROWARD COUNTY,
WEAVING THROUGH CARS AS OTHER
DRIVERS, OF COURSE, WERE JUST
GOING ABOUT THEIR DAY.
YOU CAN SEE PARTS OF THAT STOLEN
CAR WERE HANGING OFF THE BACK
END AS THE SUSPECT TOOK OFF ON A
HIGH-SPEED CHASE.
AT ONE POINT, IT LOOKED LIKE IT
MAY BE ALL OVER.
THE SUSPECT CAME UP ON HEAVY
TRAFFIC AT AN INTERSECTION, BUT
HE WENT OFF ROAD DRIVING ON TO
THE GRASS PAST THE CARS AND THEN
MAKING A YOU-TURN AND NEARLY
COLLIDE WITH AN ONCOMING DRIVER.
THANKFULLY THEY WERE ABLE TO
STOP IN TIME.
IT GAVE THE SUSPECT ENOUGH TIME
TO GAIN SOME GROUND ON POLICE
THAT WERE PURSUING.
INEVITABLY THE SUSPECT DID GET
TRIPPED UP AT ANOTHER
INTERSECTION A IN OPA-LOCKA AND
REAR-ENDED A CAR.
THEN HIS CAR SPUN OUT INTO A
NEARBY PARKING LOT AS POLICE
START TO CATCH UP AND CIRCLE THE
CAR, THE SUSPECT THEN MAKES A
RUN FOR IT.
DARTS ACROSS FOUR LANES OF
TRAFFIC.
AND THEN BOUNDS UP THE SIDEWALK
WITH ONE OF HIS HANDS IN HIS
POCKET.
THE SUSPECT NEARLY CAPTURED AS A
POLICE VEHICLE ROLLS UP AND AN
OFFICER SWINGS UP THE CAR DOOR,
BUT THE SUSPECT IS ABLE SOMEHOW
TO SIDE STEP, RUN TOWARD THE
TRAIN TRACKS AS A CARGO TRAIN
SPEEDS BY.
AS HE RUNS ALONGSIDE THE TRACKS
AT ONE POINT, IT LOOKED LIKE THE
SUSPECT TRIED TO JUMP ON THE
TRAIN, BUT HE TRIPPED.
GAVE POLICE ON FOOT JUST ENOUGH
TIME TO CATCH UP.
OFFICERS SURROUNDED THE SUSPECT.
GOT HIM DOWN.
CLEARLY STRUGGLED TO TRY TO GET
AWAY.
BUT HE DIDN’T HAVE A CHANCE.
OUR LOCAL 10 NEWS REPORTER LIANE
MOREJON IS NOW AT THE SCENE ON
THE PHONE.
LIANE, WHAT CAN YOU ADD TO THIS
REALLY WILD STORY?
>> Reporter: IT ALL ENDED RIGHT
BEHIND ME.
YOU CAN SEE THE TRAFFIC MOVING
ALONG THE STREET AND JUST BEYOND
THAT.
A SMALL PARKING LOT AND SOME
RAILROAD TRACKS.
I KNOW YOU WERE SHOWING OUR
VIEWERS JUST A MOMENT AGO SOME
OF THOSE IMAGES FROM SKY 10
WHERE YOU SEE THE CHASE CAME TO
AN END NEAR THOSE TRAIN TRACKS.
IT IS STILL VERY ACTIVE HERE.
YOU HAVE NOT ONLY MIAMI-DADE
POLICE ON SCENE, BUT ALSO
FLORIDA HIGHWAY PATROL TROOPERS.
AND WHEN THIS CHASE CAME TO AN
END, THAT SUSPECT BAILED OUT OF
THE VEHICLE AND CAME SO
DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO A TRAIN
THAT WAS ON THE TRACKS THERE.
BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, THIS IS
STILL VERY ACTIVE.
THIS STARTED OFF AS AN ARMED
CARJACKING WE UNDERSTAND THAT
TOOK PLACE THIS MORNING.
THE SUSPECT THEN LEADING LAW
ENFORCEMENT ON A CHASE THAT
ENDED HERE IN THE CITY OF
OPA-LOCKA.
AS YOU CAN SEE, AN INVESTIGATION
REMAINS UNDER WAY.
>>Gio: LIANE, A QUICK QUESTION
FOR YOU.
YOU JUST GOT TO THE SCENE.
WHEN WE WERE WATCH THIS CHASE
EARLY IN THE MORNING, SOMETHING
YOU NOTICED WAS WEAVE IN AND OUT
OF TRAFFIC.
THE SCENE BEHIND YOU THERE.
I KNOW YOU JUST GOT THERE, ANY
INDICATION FROM POLICE AND FIRST
RESPONDERS WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED
IN THIS ENTIRE
.
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GET --
>>Reporter: SO I THINK THEY EVEN
HAVE TO GET SOME THEIR DUCKS IN
A ROW AND GET ON THE SAME PAGE
OF WHAT EXACTLY EACH OFFICER
ENCOUNTERED DURING THIS CHASE.
I CAN TELL YOU AT ONE POINT,
OBVIOUSLY YOU HAVE THE PART OF
THE INVESTIGATION THAT FOCUSES
ON THE ARMED CARJACKING.
THEN YOU HAVE WHERE BSO WAS
INVOLVED.
WE KNOW THE VEHICLE THAT WAS
CHASED NEVER ENDED BROWARD
COUNTY.
BUT CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE COUNTY
LINE WHERE A BSO TROOPER SPOTTED
THAT VEHICLE.
OBVIOUSLY THERE WAS A BOLO, A BE
ON THE LOOKOUT PUT OUT FOR THIS
CAR THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT IN THE
AREA WAS KNOWN TO KEEP AN EYE
OUT FOR IT.
AND BECAUSE OF THAT, THE CHASE
BEGAN.
WE ALSO KNOW THAT VEHICLE STRUCK
ANOTHER CAR DURING THIS CHASE.
SO SO MANY SMALLER INCIDENTS
THAT SORT OF MAKE UP THIS ENTIRE
STORY HERE.
AND HOPEFULLY LATER THIS
AFTERNOON, WE WILL GET THAT
OFFICIAL UPDATE FROM LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
I WILL BE HERE THROUGHOUT THE
DAY INTO THE AFTERNOON AND, OF
COURSE, I WILL BRING YOU THOSE
ANSWERS AS SOON AS WE GET THEM.