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Daytona Beach Fla Aug 29 2009
Two of three vehicles stolen from an auto auction in Daytona Beach early this morning escaped pursuit while a third crashed on Interstate 4 near Deltona as it was tailed by a Volusia County sheriff’s helicopter, authorities said.
No one was injured in the crash, and a juvenile suspect is in custody, sheriff’s spokesman Brandon Haught said.
The Sheriff’s Office was called by a security guard at 4:45 a.m. reporting that three call at 4:45 a.m. that three vehicles had just been stolen from Daytona Auto Dealers Exchange at 1305 Indian Lake Road, Haught said.
A sergeant at the dispatch center on Indian Lake Road jumped into his patrol car and saw the vehicles about to make a turn at Indian Lake Road and International Speedway Boulevard. The sergeant tried to pull over one of the vehicles but they all fled, running the red light at the intersection, Haught said.
One car split from the group and the sergeant eventually lost sight of them, Haught said. Shortly after, two of the stolen vehicles were seen on I-4. Deputies did not see the third vehicle and do not know if it got onto I-4 or sped into Daytona Beach, Haught said.
“VCSO units did not engage in a high-speed chase and Air One (sheriff’s helicopter) then spotted them and followed them,” Haught said. “We immediately started notifying other agencies like Florida Highway Patrol and the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office.”
Haught said deputies were authorized to use stop sticks, but he did not immediately know this morning whether any were used.
As the vehicles sped west on I-4, one of the vehicles, a sport utility vehicle, crashed near Saxon Boulevard, Haught said. The driver of the second vehicle, an Infiniti, slowed down as if intending to pick up the driver of the crashed SUV, but then sped off, said FHP spokeswoman Sgt. Kim Montes.
The apparent driver bailed out of the crashed vehicle and ran into the woods but was tracked by a police dog and apprehended near a house in Deltona. The suspect, 15-year-old Jeremiah Pinkerd of Orlando, faces charges of burglary, four counts of grand theft auto and one count of fleeing and eluding. He was taken to the Volusia Regional Juvenile Detention Center, Haught said.
The suspect appears to be uninjured from both the crash and the pursuit that followed, Haught said.
Two other troopers pursued the second vehicle through Seminole County and into Orlando. The troopers stopped the chase after the vehicle, which was traveling erratically, exited I-4 onto Fairbanks Avenue, Montes said. “We shut down the pursuit because of the traffic on Fairbanks,” Montes said. “There were no other crashes related with this incident.”
Deputies later found a vehicle reported stolen out of Orlando parked outside the dealership and believe the three suspects used that car to get there.
The only description authorities have of the other two suspects who got away were that they were young black males. The missing cars include a dark colored Infiniti G35 and dark passenger car of an unknown model, Haught said. Neither vehicle had a license plate.
Anyone with information about the two suspects at large is asked to call the Sheriff’s Office at (386) 323-0151 or Crime Stoppers of Northeast Florida, toll-free, at (888) 277-TIPS. Tipsters can also provide information by texting “TIP231 plus the message” to CRIMES. Anyone who provides information to Crime Stoppers will remain anonymous and can qualify for a reward of up to $1,000.
Two of three vehicles stolen from an auto auction in Daytona Beach early this morning escaped pursuit while a third crashed on Interstate 4 near Deltona as it was tailed by a Volusia County sheriff’s helicopter, authorities said.
No one was injured in the crash, and a juvenile suspect is in custody, sheriff’s spokesman Brandon Haught said.
The Sheriff’s Office was called by a security guard at 4:45 a.m. reporting that three call at 4:45 a.m. that three vehicles had just been stolen from Daytona Auto Dealers Exchange at 1305 Indian Lake Road, Haught said.
A sergeant at the dispatch center on Indian Lake Road jumped into his patrol car and saw the vehicles about to make a turn at Indian Lake Road and International Speedway Boulevard. The sergeant tried to pull over one of the vehicles but they all fled, running the red light at the intersection, Haught said.
One car split from the group and the sergeant eventually lost sight of them, Haught said. Shortly after, two of the stolen vehicles were seen on I-4. Deputies did not see the third vehicle and do not know if it got onto I-4 or sped into Daytona Beach, Haught said.
“VCSO units did not engage in a high-speed chase and Air One (sheriff’s helicopter) then spotted them and followed them,” Haught said. “We immediately started notifying other agencies like Florida Highway Patrol and the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office.”
Haught said deputies were authorized to use stop sticks, but he did not immediately know this morning whether any were used.
As the vehicles sped west on I-4, one of the vehicles, a sport utility vehicle, crashed near Saxon Boulevard, Haught said. The driver of the second vehicle, an Infiniti, slowed down as if intending to pick up the driver of the crashed SUV, but then sped off, said FHP spokeswoman Sgt. Kim Montes.
The apparent driver bailed out of the crashed vehicle and ran into the woods but was tracked by a police dog and apprehended near a house in Deltona. The suspect, 15-year-old Jeremiah Pinkerd of Orlando, faces charges of burglary, four counts of grand theft auto and one count of fleeing and eluding. He was taken to the Volusia Regional Juvenile Detention Center, Haught said.
The suspect appears to be uninjured from both the crash and the pursuit that followed, Haught said.
Two other troopers pursued the second vehicle through Seminole County and into Orlando. The troopers stopped the chase after the vehicle, which was traveling erratically, exited I-4 onto Fairbanks Avenue, Montes said. “We shut down the pursuit because of the traffic on Fairbanks,” Montes said. “There were no other crashes related with this incident.”
Deputies later found a vehicle reported stolen out of Orlando parked outside the dealership and believe the three suspects used that car to get there.
The only description authorities have of the other two suspects who got away were that they were young black males. The missing cars include a dark colored Infiniti G35 and dark passenger car of an unknown model, Haught said. Neither vehicle had a license plate.
Anyone with information about the two suspects at large is asked to call the Sheriff’s Office at (386) 323-0151 or Crime Stoppers of Northeast Florida, toll-free, at (888) 277-TIPS. Tipsters can also provide information by texting “TIP231 plus the message” to CRIMES. Anyone who provides information to Crime Stoppers will remain anonymous and can qualify for a reward of up to $1,000.
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