Four body cam cases show suspects stealing police cars, and every escape ends in a crash.
Stolen patrol cars end in crashes, not escapesSanchez died hitting a semi at over 100 mph, Destiny wrecked at over 80 mph, and the last suspect was stopped by a stinger.
Unsecured patrol cars invited every theftNo partition, keys in the ignition, a rifle on the seat, and a suspect placed in the front passenger seat of a running car.
Joyriding multiplies the sentenceAngie got three years and Destiny four, plus charges for stealing property worth over $20,000 and fleeing police.
Executive SummaryAI
The video is assembled from body cam footage of the rare times suspects have stolen a patrol car, opening with Mr. Sanchez in Colorado, who had been purposefully causing accidents before a team of officers spun him to a stop with a pit maneuver.
After being handcuffed and put in the back of a patrol vehicle, Sanchez brought his arms under his legs and drove away in a car that had no partition, the keys in the ignition and a service rifle on the passenger seat, then ran at over 120 miles an hour at 11 a.m., avoided stop sticks twice, and finally hit a parked semi-truck at over 100 miles an hour and was pronounced dead, with the truck drive
In Oklahoma on March 30th, 2018, Angie was pulled over in a car reported stolen, insisted she had borrowed it from Steven Curtis, and when officers sat her in the front passenger seat of a running patrol car she slid across, locked the door and sped away at up to 90 miles an hour around 1 a.m. before bailing out, being caught on foot, and pleading guilty to a three-year sentence.
A third case in Detroit involved Destiny, who was not part of the original call at all: she got into the driver's seat while the officer handled a civil dispute at a bus stop, was tracked by the car's GPS, crashed into a parked car at over 80 miles per hour, and was sentenced to four years for unlawfully driving a vehicle, stealing property worth over $20,000 and fleeing police.
The final case is the most embarrassing for the officers, with two cars stolen from under their noses in a row: after a cop rammed the first stolen patrol car off the road, the suspect escaped the wreck, took a second K-9 vehicle that probably had guns in the front, and was only stopped when a stinger punctured its tires and he exited to be apprehended.
Key Quote
“So what does it look like when stealing a cop car goes horribly wrong?”
— Narrator
Key Quote
“If he did steal it, I'm going to have to go to jail and pay the price for it.”
— Angie
Key Quote
“You're not even supposed to be driving, so you're going to jail.”