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A suspect was arrested in Maryland after ramming a stolen automotive into police cruisers in a Taco Bell drive-thru in Prince George’s County.
The person was seen on Friday in a video obtained by FOX 5 DC being taken into custody on the quick meals restaurant on Department Avenue in Marlow Heights, Maryland.
The id of the suspect, who was driving a stolen 2011 Hyundai Tiburon, has not been launched.
A number of Marlow Heights police cruisers have been broken within the collision, together with one which was totaled after the person crashed into the police cruisers. One officer was injured within the incident and was transported to the hospital, the place he acquired remedy and was later launched.
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A suspect was arrested in Maryland after ramming a stolen automotive into police cruisers in a Taco Bell drive-thru in Prince George’s County. (Marlow Heights Police)
“He stored his foot on the accelerator,” Lt. Moses Edwards of the Marlow Heights Particular Police informed FOX 5. “We have been telling him: take your foot off the accelerator, put the automotive in park, flip the automotive off. He would not. You possibly can hear him revving up the motor, revving up the engine and through that point, [an officer] was nonetheless pinned in his car.”
A girl driving within the passenger seat of the stolen car informed officers that the suspect additionally ran right into a blue sedan that had a father and his 6-year-old youngster inside. The 2 occupants of the sedan are believed to be unhurt.
“She jumped out and instantly put her palms up and stated I am not a part of this,” Edwards stated.
The automotive was stolen from exterior a house in Southeast D.C.
“Once I obtained up yesterday morning and got here exterior to my automotive, there was no automotive,” the proprietor of the car informed FOX 5.
The proprietor stated this was not the primary time she had been carjacked and that the thief broke in and began the automotive with out her keys.
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One officer was injured within the incident and was transported to the hospital, the place he acquired remedy and was later launched. (Marlow Heights Police)
“It is unlucky, however I type of really feel like folks must get jobs and work for no matter they get as an alternative of taking no matter they’ll that is materialistic, and it is unlucky the lady did not notice she was in a stolen automotive,” she stated.
Marlow Heights Police Chief John Conklin informed FOX 5 that the suspect has earlier arrests, together with for carjacking.
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This comes because the variety of automotive thefts within the space has soared this yr.
“It’s as much as the state’s lawyer and the judges to prosecute and punish them for the crimes they’re committing. With out the punishment, it’s going to proceed,” Conklin stated.
4 of the Marlow Heights police division’s eight cruisers have been broken within the incident. The 4 autos now need to be repaired or changed.
