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Not-so-Hot Pursuit of Burglary Suspect Sees Police Cars Chase Tractor Excavator at Walking Pace
- South Carolina police chased a 53-year-old man driving a tractor excavator on U.S. Highway 78 in North Charleston early Sunday morning.
- The chase followed a burglary call about a heavily damaged business and began when officers saw the excavator crossing the highway around 3:30 a.m.
- Officers used sirens, blue lights, and loudspeakers to instruct the excavator driver to stop, but the pursuit lasted 1 hour and 12 minutes at speeds around 3 mph.
- Authorities apprehended Johnny Mesa and charged him with not stopping for emergency vehicle signals as well as two separate offenses involving intentional damage to property, setting his bond at $22,000.
- The driver tried to flee on Charleston County Fairgrounds property but was caught by a police dog and handler, leaving Mesa in custody at the county jail.
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Too Funny: It's a Low-Speed Pursuit in South Carolina for the Record Books
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Police chase excavator during extremely slow-speed pursuit in South Carolina
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Police in South Carolina released video Wednesday of a low-speed pursuit involving an excavator. Officers with the North Charleston Police Department were responding to another call around 3 a.m. when they noticed a Komatsu excavator crossing over U.S. Highway 78, heading toward a Hispanic grocery market. ‘Marbles in the rear ends of cats’: What Hegseth was talking about In their report, the agency said the …
New dash camera video shows police in South Carolina chasing a man driving an excavator.
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