A person was arrested in south Fort Worth after a police chase that led to a crash Sunday morning, police said.
A person was arrested in south Fort Worth after a police chase that led to a crash Sunday morning, police said.
Fort Worth police officers began chasing a vehicle about 9: 30 a.m. in the 600 block of W. Bolt Street, police said.
The driver crashed into another vehicle during the chase in the intersection of Wichita Street and Seminary Drive, police said.
Police said the driver then got out of the vehicle and ran on foot /and was bitten by a police K-9. The person was arrested and taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries .
It was not immediately known whether anyone in the other vehicle was injured, police said.
Shambhavi covers crime, law enforcement and other breaking news in Fort Worth and Tarrant County. She graduated from the University of North Texas and previously covered a variety of general assignment topics in West Texas. She grew up in Nepal.
A man was taken into custody late Tuesday after driving his car into a security barrier outside the White House, authorities said.The U. S. Secret Service said the man crashed into the security gate at a White House entrance at 10:37 p.m. on Tuesday. The man was immediately arrested by officers from the Secret Service’s uniformed division, the agency said.Investigators searched his car and deemed it to be safe, Secret Service officials said in a statement.Authorities did not immediately provide any additional information about the crash, the driver’s identity, or any potential motivation.
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A man was taken into custody late Tuesday after driving his car into a security barrier outside the White House, authorities said.
The U. S. Secret Service said the man crashed into the security gate at a White House entrance at 10:37 p.m. on Tuesday. The man was immediately arrested by officers from the Secret Service’s uniformed division, the agency said.
Investigators searched his car and deemed it to be safe, Secret Service officials said in a statement.
Authorities did not immediately provide any additional information about the crash, the driver’s identity, or any potential motivation.
10 adults and three children from Silver Spring, Maryland, are displaced after a two-vehicle collision resulted in an SUV crashing into their home Saturday morning.
10 adults and three children from Silver Spring, Maryland, are displaced after a two-vehicle collision resulted in an SUV crashing into their home Saturday morning.
The crash happened in the 200 block of University Blvd East Near East Indian Spring Drive, just inside the Beltway. Montgomery County Fire and EMS personnel are on the scene.
Officials said there are no serious injuries. But the home suffered structural damage.
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Sep. 7—A high-speed Priceville police pursuit Saturday evening ended in a crash that caused multiple injuries and killed a 17-year-old in Hartselle who was not in the car being chased, according to authorities.
The wreck comes less than two weeks after another Priceville police pursuit reached 120 mph and went 28 miles before ending with the chased vehicle crashing into other vehicles in Huntsville.
On Saturday night, Hartselle police said that at about 8:30 p.m., “… Priceville Police Department was engaged in a vehicle pursuit that entered the jurisdiction of the City of Hartselle on Highway 36. As the pursuit approached the intersection of Highway 31 the suspect vehicle entered the intersection and a vehicle crash occurred, resulting in multiple injuries and 6 transported to local hospitals. The suspect has been taken into custody.”
Morgan County Coroner Jeff Chunn on Sunday said a 17-year-old died in the wreck and another person was at UAB Hospital in critical condition.
The chase, which went about 8 miles, went through downtown Hartselle before reaching the busy Alabama 36/U.S. 31 intersection where the crash occurred.
The identity of the suspect being chased, the Priceville police officer in pursuit, and the identity of the teen who was killed have not been released. It also was not clear what prompted the pursuit, although a dispatch from PPD at the time indicated it was for a “moving violation.”
The Priceville police pursuit on Aug. 28 was prompted by a 17-month-old Decatur felony warrant, according to authorities. Decatur police discontinued the chase when it reached high speeds on Interstate 565.
The man behind the wheel in a horrific wrong-way crash outside an L.A. County Sheriff’s Department training facility, which left one person dead, has been charged with manslaughter, prosecutors said Thursday.
Nicholas Gutierrez, 23, surrendered Thursday and faces charges of vehicular manslaughter and reckless driving that caused injuries in the November 2022 wreck, prosecutors said. Gutierrez plowed into a group of recruits who were on a training run in South Whittier, near the Sheriff’s Department’s STARS Center training academy.
More than two dozen recruits were struck, and five suffered critical injuries. Earlier this year, 27-year-old Alejandro Martinez died of his injuries. He had been hospitalized and on a ventilator for nearly eight months.
“There is nothing we can do to bring back the life of young Alejandro Martinez … he will never be back with his family,” said Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón.
Photos of Darrell Cunningham and Jorge Soriano are displayed at the news conference Thursday.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
If convicted of all charges, Gutierrez faces 12 years in state prison. The district attorney announced the charges immediately following another news conference about a vehicle crash that claimed the life of a law enforcement officer. Prosecutors also brought murder charges Thursday against 20-year-old Brian David Oliveri, the driver who slammed into a vehicle in Northridge last week that claimed the life of off-duty LAPD Officer Darrell Cunningham.
At the time of the 2022 crash outside the training facility, then-Sheriff Alex Villanueva claimed that Gutierrez intentionally slammed his car into the recruits, saying his department’s investigation had turned up probable cause to file attempted murder charges.
But Gutierrez’s lawyer, Alexandra Kazarian, said her client simply fell asleep behind the wheel on his way to work. A breathalyzer test conducted at the scene confirmed Gutierrez was not under the influence of alcohol.
Prosecutors said Thursday that they were “exploring a claim of drowsiness,” but would not discuss the exact cause of the crash. Gascón said the evidence did not support allegations that Gutierrez speeded up while careening toward the recruits.
Gutierrez comes from a law-enforcement family, Kazarian previously told The Times. His father is a retired corrections officer and he has relatives who worked in the Los Angeles Police Department, the California Highway Patrol and the Sheriff’s Department.
“He harbors absolutely no animosity toward law enforcement,” Kazarian said.
On the morning of Nov. 16, roughly eight weeks into the 76-member academy’s training regimen, the group was on a four-mile training run, moving in formation. Around 6:30 a.m., a mile into their run, those at the front of the group spotted a Honda CR-V approaching.
The aftermath of the crash in which a group of L.A. County sheriff’s cadets was struck in Whittier in November 2022.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
The SUV veered to the wrong side of the road and into the group. The runners at the front were able to get out of the way before the SUV struck others and crashed into a lamppost.
Authorities said several of the recruits suffered broken bones and severe head trauma. Villanueva described the scene as an “airplane wreck.”
Villanueva’s successor, Sheriff Robert Luna, said the crash forever altered Academy Class 464, noting that several of those struck suffered life-altering injuries.
“Some of them dreamed of becoming police officers and deputy sheriffs,”Luna said. “Some of them aren’t going to be able to do that.”
A native Angeleno, Martinez made it his life’s mission to be a dedicated public servant, serving as a member of the Army National Guard before applying to become a deputy sheriff, those who knew him said.
He was sworn in as a full deputy soon after the crash.
“He was a great recruit,” said his former drill instructor, Victor Rodriguez. “He wasn’t one to draw attention to himself, which spoke volumes. He had this maturity, this life experience. He was an example of a recruit for other ones that are new to this type of career, new to this structure.”
William Preciado, a former California Highway Patrol officer whose daughter Lauren Preciado was seriously injured in the crash, said of the charges: “We knew this day was coming. We just didn’t know when.”
“It gives me, I guess, a sense of satisfaction that some kind of justice will be forthcoming for this individual,” he said.
Preciado said his daughter was planning to follow in his footsteps by getting into law enforcement, a career that is now in jeopardy.
“The incident changed many lives. Not only my daughter’s but the other individuals that were trying to pursue their future,” he said. “That’s a lasting impact for the Martinez family who lost their son. My daughter is on a long road to recovery.”
With the injury his daughter sustained, Preciado said, “I don’t really know that she’ll be effective to the point that she can be gainfully employed anywhere, let alone law enforcement.”
“A broken bone will heal, the skin may heal itself as well,” he said. “But how do you fix a crushed dream? How do you do that? That was my daughter’s dream.”
In the Northridge case, Gascón said Oliveri was under the influence of alcohol and driving at speeds above 100 mph when he ran a red light and slammed into Cunningham’s vehicle. The officer and his passenger, Jorge Soriano, died at the scene.
L.A. Police Chief Michel Moore speaks at the news conference as D.A. George Gascón comforts Eddrinna Cunningham.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Oliveri was charged with two counts of murder, two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and one count of driving under the influence and causing injury. If convicted of all charges, Oliveri faces life in prison, Gascón said.
An off-duty San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy who was in the car with Cunningham was seriously injured, according to LAPD Chief Michel Moore. The deputy suffered a broken pelvis and remains hospitalized but is expected to survive, Moore said. Soriano was also planning to join the academy soon.
Cunningham had nearly 5 years on the job and in talking with everyone who knew him, he lit up a room … he lived to be a member of this organization. He lived a life of service,” Moore said. “At a time when we struggle to identify people who are willing to step into this profession, to have lost his life, to have lost Darrell’s life, in such a senseless fashion, is beyond words.”
