Police chase in Miami-Dade involving kidnapping investigation ends with crash, injuries

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — A fast-moving police chase through a residential neighborhood ended with a suspect’s truck overturned and its windshield smashed out on Wednesday.

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“You could hear the car screeching, you could hear the chase — you could hear the signs and then you heard something that sounded like crash, crash, crash,” one woman who witnessed the pursuit said.

Investigators said the driver of the red Dodge pickup truck was wanted in connection to a kidnapping investigation.

Authorities said the victim was inside the truck during the pursuit, which involved the Florida Highway Patrol and the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.

“A real live chase man, I seen all type of cars flying back and forth and the helicopter and he ran and chased the big red truck,” witness James Johnson said.

The chase came to an abrupt end near Northwest 86th Street and 18th Avenue when an FHP trooper performed a PIT maneuver.

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Deputies and troopers were then able to take the suspect into custody and safely recover the victim.

Two people were injured during the incident.

One of the injured individuals was seen on a stretcher before being rushed to the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. It remains unclear how that person was connected to the scene.

After several hours of investigating, a tow truck arrived to flip the overturned truck upright and haul it away, ending what neighbors described as a chaotic night.

“They were up and down 87th and up and down 18th,” another witness said.

“They had all type of police behind him, behind him, I don’t know what he did though but man that was crazy,” Johnson said. “My heart beating fast as hell right now. I ain’t never seen nothing like this man.”

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