When Stealing A Police Car Goes Wrong | Forensic Files

stealing a police car is one of the riskiest things you can attempt with any wrong move resulting in certain jail
time so what does it look like when stealing a cop car goes horribly wrong good scks today we cover exclusive
body cam footage of the few times this has happened starting with the case of a man named Mr Sanchez in Colorado Police
say he had been purposefully causing accidents and crashing into multiple other vehicles in the area so they
gathered a team of officers and tried to take him down 379 slow down down uh speed of 28
28 Mane maneuver tra tvi successful using a technique called the pit maneuver or the Precision
immobilization technique the cops are able to spin Sanchez's vehicle around and completely stop him in his tracks
then they rush in to arrest him but this is far from where the story ends out of the vehicle out of the
vehicle on the ground the [ __ ] behind your back what's going on [ __ ] shot at me and I don't know what
the [ __ ] going on Sanchez frankly looks scared and confused and even claims he's got no idea what's going on
or what he did wrong but that might at least explain what he does next after being placed in the back of the patrol
vehicle he manages to bring his handcuffed arms under his legs so that they're in front of him and for seeds to
do [Music] this oh what the [ __ ] [ __ ] Sanchez jumps into the front of the patrol vehicle and simply drives
away for some reason the car didn't have a partition between the front and the back and evidently had the keys ready in
the ignition and what's worse the police had left a service rifle on the passenger seat of his new ride so he was
now speeding away armed in a stolen vehicle I need as many sets of Stop Sticks set up as you can
get can you get a hold of State Patrol and find out if this individual's armed please he's not anymore my rifle the
rifle is in the vehicle passing the 390 speeds 123 Mark's charger is the one that was
stolen I'm in a gray unmarked he's driving down the middle of the Lane get stop sticks out the police immediately
set their focus to stopping the vehicle the longer he's driving like this the more danger he's putting civilians in
he's currently driving over 120 mph down public roads at 11:00 a.m. if this is allowed to continue any longer many
lives will be put at risk so the cops aim to put stop tricks or stingers in place strips of spikes that puncture the
tires and stop the vehicle and its tracks the only issue is that Sanchez is a better driver than they
realized J first car coming up on stop sticks he missed them continuing eastbound one coming up right now and
I'll come up behind Sanchez was able to avoid the Stop Sticks not once but twice and
continues to speed down the freeway at increasingly dangerous speeds however the cops know exactly where he's going
and if they keep at it this method will eventually work what they seem to forget
though is that taking out a car's tires at 120 mph is an incredibly dangerous feat in its own
right you got good sticks we got you all right sir you all right yeah just yard Sanchez crashed into a parked
semi-truck at over a 100 miles an hour and after being removed from the wreck and taken to the hospital he was
pronounced dead luckily the semi-truck driver sustained no injuries and nobody else was hurt in Pursuit but it did come
close this Pursuit was allowed to go on for much longer than it should have been
but it's astonishing that it was even able to happen in the first place and the same goes for our next case this
time in Oklahoma trying to steal your car stop on March 30th 2018 a woman named Angie was driving a car that had been
reported stolen and when she was pulled over and questioned about it she had this to say I'm from Steven Curtis he
told me that I could borrow it I swear I did not steal this vehicle how long has Stephen had it he
picked me up today um I have you seen him in it before yes do you know how he got it no he bought it if he did steal
it I'm going to have to go to jail and pay the price for it the police know know this car was stolen because it
flagged up on their system they know without a doubt that somebody had reported it as missing but they didn't
know exactly who took it this is why they have to assume it's Angie she was the one driving it at the time and
claims the previous owner bought it straight from the dealership and given that she has a track record it's safe to
assume she's lying about something all right took the vehicle without permission it was reported as stolen
okay so you're in possession of it I didn't know please not to mention your driving status is flag you're not even
supposed to be driving so you're going to jail please I can do I work with please I work with them on um 11 gnet
with uh murders and the whole prostitution thing um the uh Secret Service with the counterfeiting please I
told this officer where you can get Paper Tags and all that stuff I will work with you guys I didn't know
stolen Angie then tells the officers that she's in regular contact with the captain at another Police Department
working as an informance and could even give them information on local drug dealers but obviously that doesn't
excuse her of what she's doing here so they decide to sit her down in a patrol vehicle while they continue the
investigation but for some reason they decide to put her in the front passenger seat of a running police car something
that a car thief would realize instantly and I don't feel like spending the rest
of my shift trying cuz I think this is all going to blow be a bunch of BS anyway
well what is she doing trying to steal your car stop stop David 136 suspect just stole my
vehicle is heading Southbound on Memorial from 33rd Angie simply shifts over to the driver's seat locks the door
and speeds away without a moment's notice luckily it's around 1:00 a.m. so there's very little traffic on the road
but nevertheless the speeds of up to 90 mph Angie is finding herself at are still extremely dangerous in such a
residential area so the cops need to shut this down immediately David 104 still a
memorial oh God there's another C sh sh oh God oh God [Music] sh clearly terrified of the situation
she's found herself in Angie turns off the main road and onto a smaller Side Road and this turns out to be her
downfall yeah just out cornered Angie realized her only option is to bail from the vehicle and
Sprint away but the cops are trained for situations just like this and she'll have a hard time staying out of their
grasp for long especially while she's handcuffed is that her right there there she
is come here now [Music] coming get on the ground put your hands over your head put your
hands over your head please if it's an adrenaline rush aie was after she sure got it but that
also comes coupled with a considerably larger sentence than she was originally facing and the cops make sure to let her
know how bad of an idea that really was I've seen some stupid stuff but my gosh and you hit a car with it you guys told
me that I was going to jail for something that I did not do you just stole a police car now I'm going to jail
for something I did well there we go Silver Linings at least she was right about the prison part as after a fairly
short trial where she pleaded guilty Angie was sentenced to three years behind bars both of these cases so far
involved a criminal making a last ditch effort to set themselves free but what happens when in instead of the thief
it's just someone looking for a good time our joy riter in this case is a woman named Destiny and she wasn't even
involved with the original call a single officer was called to the side of the road on a civil dispute involving a taxi
driver allegedly stealing a customer's property but out of nowhere the cop is alerted to something strange that was
happening to his car once you find out who it is and and go through that got in your car car what
60 F A girl just gotten 60 and took off she's Northbound Woodward car close the cop is
understandably shocked he's never been in a situation like this and they definitely don't train for it the best
he can do is radio in a description and ask for a pick up so he can help take the joy Rider down a black female walked
across Woodward I was talking to the gentleman at the bus stop she got in the driver's seat and took off Northbound on
[Music] Woodward you got GPS on your truck yeah there's there's GPS as the woman points
out most if not all police vehicles are fitted with a GPS tracker that dispatch uses to help coordinate things back at
base now all it comes down to is a giant game of cat and mouse across Detroit the
cops know the area better and they're better drivers so it doesn't take long to get the stolen vehicle back inside
fight sounds like we have a crash 7 [Music] miles in the car still get the [ __ ] out of the car the
car now get the [ __ ] out the car [ __ ] grab grab get on the ground get on the
[Music] ground put put her in this you know any elij just put put in danger what a dum you know how many
people just put in danger doing this yeah unbelievable get in unfortunately for us there were no
exciting chases or strategic Maneuvers used to take Destiny down she simply crashed into a parked car at over 80 mph
completely wrecking her new ride multiple other vehicles also received damage from the event and so Destiny was
charged with unlawfully driving a vehicle stealing property worth over $20,000 and fleeing police in an
automobile she was sentenced to 4 years in prison having a patrol car stolen from you must be one of the most
surprising things that can happen to an officer but in this situation where two cars were stolen from right under their
noses in a row it must be straight up embarrassing are you kidding me during the first Pursuit the suspect was
speeding down a public freeway and being chased by multiple cop cars all while somehow managing to evade multiple pit
Maneuvers this cop managed to put all his training to work and Rams the escaping vehicle off the road almost
instantly the wck patrol car is now surrounded by the police but somehow not a single cop saw this
coming y'all do not walk up on this car we got enough people up here dog that's the
[Music] dog he's on the move again in a Coco K9 FL going north G 95 Air One follow that car you got
another car air once got still Northbound somehow the Escape managed to run from the first crash Patrol vehicle
and take over another one before putting his foot down and fleeing the scene once
more and the other vehicle dealing with them lock your doors sck all right which car is the Coco
car Coco SUV Coco SUV in the shoulder right now sck from both units both sck are there guns in the front of the
car ask the K9 hand from Coco he says yes there probably is Thinking Fast the cops managed to
radio ahead to set up a team with a stinger a piece of police equipment that punctures the tires of a vehicle and
slowly brings them to a stop that's why you can now start to see the car smoking
and soon enough it'll be forced to slow down or the driver will risk putting himself in a lot of
danger all right he's breaking for the median guys he's breaking for the median breaking for the median everybody slow
down don't ball up here it's underneath the over the wires underneath the wires after coming to a
safe stop the driver exits the vehicle and is apprehended by the cops it's difficult to believe such a professional
stop was made by the same cops that let him steal a patrol car from right under their nose but in the end the stop was
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Brief Summary

This episode details police car thefts, featuring dangerous chases and the consequences faced by the thieves.

Key points

Sanchez's Wild Escape. After a police chase, Sanchez steals a patrol car and speeds away armed!
Angie's Desperate Move. Angie, caught in a stolen car, shifts to the driver's seat and speeds off!
Embarrassing Patrol Fail. Two patrol cars stolen in a row? A nightmare for any officer!

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Episode quotes

Stealing a police car is one of the riskiest things you can attempt.

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