Cops At Work

A North Texas burglary suspect was hit by a concrete truck during a police chase and died early Friday morning, and the accident was caught on police dash camera. A DeSoto police officer first pulled over the suspect’s gray Ford F-150 truck about 5:40 a.m. on Hampton Road near Dalton Drive.

The officer was investigating a report of a nearby resident’s air compressor being stolen. DeSoto police say several similar burglaries have been reported in their city. When the officer questioned the driver, he became belligerent and attempted to reach into the center console, police say.

The suspect finally got out of the pickup truck and began to scuffle with the police officer, trying to grab his gun from his holster. The officer deployed his Taser, but the probes became stuck in the vehicle and ended up giving the officer a slight shock.

In the car’s dash cam video, you can see the officer step back from the truck as the suspect gets back in and drives away. The officer radioed for permission to pursue the suspect, which was given. Police say the suspect was driving south on Hampton Road at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour.

The wreck happened in the city of Glenn Heights when the suspect ran a red light on Hampton Road at Bear Creek Road. A concrete truck, which had the green light, struck the fleeing pickup
truck on the passenger side. The concrete truck driver received non life-threatening injuries. The suspect was rushed to the hospital, where he later died. Police say there were multiple items in the bed of the pickup that they believe were stolen.

A sheriff’s deputy is being hailed a hero after pulling two young women from a sinking car early Saturday morning — moments before it slipped beneath the surface of Lake Ray Hubbard.
“I saw the two females in the back seat,” said Deputy Keven Rowan of the Rockwall County Sheriff’s Office. “I was like, ‘I got to get them out!’”

Rowan spotted the submerged Honda Civic shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday while he was patrolling the shoreline.

Moments earlier, the car’s driver, Ngac Do of Garland, had mistaken a boat ramp for a road at Robertson Park in Dallas and drove into the lake. She and her cousin got lost while driving home from dinner. Rowan, a five-year deputy, never saw the car until he happened to glance down the ramp and notice headlights 30 feet from the shore. “I don’t know what it is,” Rowan said of the timing. “I guess it wasn’t those girls’ time, and I guess I was at the right place at the right time.”
Inside the car, Do, 20, and her cousin, Nhi Tran, 21, were scrambling to get out of the sinking sedan. The women recently moved to the United States from Vietnam and attend a local community college.More info available here: http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Caught-on-tape-Women-rescued-from-Lake-Ray-Hubbard-138274249.html

Good, honest police chase. With flashing lights, sirens and stuff.