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Low-speed vehicle pursuit with fake tags in New BernNew Bern NC

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New Bern, NC

Police are pursuing a vehicle with fake tags through downtown New Bern at low speeds. The vehicle drove through stop arms at a drawbridge and is looping through city streets. Officers are coordinating to contain the vehicle and prevent it from leaving the area while monitoring for public safety and traffic conditions. The pursuit remains low speed with efforts to stop the vehicle safely.

Audio|Source: Craven Police Fire EMS
08:57
Transcript:
00:00
Continuing down front street.
00:04
Yeah, put a bumper on them. If you actually wait, just make sure there ain't nobody up here.
00:09
Continuing down front street, 2100.
00:13
Hey, Mom.
00:14
Even as the HP is taking over, I'm just going to be following behind.
00:19
Highway Patrol is taking over,
00:21
following behind 2101.
00:25
Hold up, hold up, wait. Let's not do it in a residential.
00:28
Just hold up a second, because we don't know if somebody's on the sidewalk.
00:51
Was that 623 Raleigh?
00:53
42-44, whichever one's you in the back.
00:56
Go ahead and stop. You're good.
00:59
623, Raleigh, what are we chasing the car for?
01:04
Acknowledge.
01:08
639-23, car rate, cut a stopping for high speed, possibly 1055.
01:19
386.3 is the fictitious tags. I got the Honda confirmed with Raleigh. This is some fictitious tags on a Crown Victoria to come back to a 2003 Mercury passenger car.
01:31
Push of speed and location.
01:36
We're passing Hancock Street, speeds are 35.
01:39
We're going to try to get out of the city before we stop it.
01:46
When you can, go ahead and try to do a roller roadblock when you're down at low speed.
01:50
And when you're within policy, go ahead and pit the vehicle out.
01:54
Ten forth,
02:00
sir, we're waiting for a little bit better area than the residential.
02:02
We don't want somebody to be on the sidewalk, but speeds are low speed right now. As soon as we get out, I can get on Main Street. We're on Queens Street right now.
02:12
What's my on Clean Street? What's your traffic?
02:19
Flight traffic, little to none traffic. We just passed our first car in the last few minutes.
02:26
Low speed,
02:27
hardly no traffic at all.
02:29
We haven't ran anyone off the road.
02:31
We haven't even passed a vehicle.
02:34
104. Wally, have you notified Mover and PD?
02:38
104. Huffles every now.
02:41
41 new burn advised they have no available unit ten four when you get done with them go and let the county know please and have them start setting up a remit around NC 55 drawbridge and news boulevard and Pembroke please ten four there's three troopers ahead of me they've got it I'm just following to make sure ten four
03:06
Ten-four counties where as well? He's 55, sir. He ran through the stop arms on the drawbridge.
03:12
There was a couple of county cops behind Tigpin. I told him to move over so we could take secondary.
03:20
Are you my secondary car?
03:23
Yeah, ten-four, sir.
03:25
All right, ten-four.
03:28
Still low speed. We're getting ready to take a left on News Boulevard, hopefully headed outbound.
03:35
Devil.
03:41
Howard, Sigurite going back inbound, I think he's lost.
03:44
Right on Broadway.
03:47
Adam 623 to Craven County units direct on 1043.
03:53
Can I get some help, unit down near the Drawbridge, News Boulevard,
04:00
and Pembroke, started trying to set up a perimeter, keep him from coming out of downtown.
04:05
Forty-bye, Craven.
04:06
I'm about to be at Pembroke.
04:08
44, Crayland, I'm right, drawbridge.
04:11
10-4[1].
04:15
23 is direct on Pembroke and the drawbridge.
04:18
We can just get a car up there either on 17 or News Boulevard near the hospital, depending on which direction he's going to go. It sounds like he's lost in downtown.
04:29
Taking it right back on Queen Street.
04:31
He's doing a loop right now. I think he's trying to figure out where to go.
04:36
Right on, Queen.
04:38
Speed is still 35.
04:40
Speed is 35.
04:43
It's 35, just 1014. A drawbridge is completely up at this time.
04:48
Yeah, he must have drove through it before they opened it, because he went through the stop alarms.
04:54
Alright, 10-4[1]. Yeah, if he keeps on doing this loop thing, go ahead and try to do a rolling roadblock. Do you have a third vehicle coming to you?
05:02
Ten four, Rock, got up behind us.
05:08
All right, ten-four. You're all working out amongst yourselves, but when you can, go ahead and just do a rolling roadblock at that speed and box them in.
05:18
Rock, get on his left.
05:20
All right, roadblock ain't work. You tried to hit me.
05:26
Go, take Ben-go.
05:32
He keeps doing loose. These streets might be too narrow for that rolling or block.
05:44
It's ours with the speed. We're, uh, we try to do it. He's better to about 50. We're going to try to probably get out of the city before we do anything like this.
05:58
High tempo, I trust you.
06:00
Towards the circle, I-217.
06:03
104, I'm here.
06:09
623 Craven, we got anybody down near front street or the roundabout?
06:14
35.
06:15
Plain we need to go ahead. 22, that Jersey said a drawbridge result.
06:19
104, we have a deputy towards the drawbridge.
06:24
Alright, Temple.
06:26
You should be able to see if you come around the corner here in a second.
06:31
1014, you got a deputy down there near the drawbridge.
06:35
Made the turn towards drawbridge.
06:38
Made the turn towards drawbridge at 217.
06:41
All right, he's going to go outbound now, so let him get outbound.
06:50
Passing Craven Street.
06:54
He was going to go outbound, but Craven's blocking the road.
07:02
South Front Street.
07:06
South Front Street.
07:11
Can't get updated on traffic conditions.
07:16
Traffic still light.
07:20
We were going to go outbound, but Craven was setting up a stationary roadblock at the bridge.
07:28
On Pollock Street.
07:30
I'm probably.
07:33
Speeds are 45.
07:35
Speed 45.
07:41
639 Raleigh, right on Middle Street.
07:44
Right on Little.
07:49
Left on South Front Street. Left on South Front Street.
07:52
Left on South Front.
08:01
Traffic is still light, speed's about 45,
08:05
50.
08:06
Light, traffic speeds 50.
08:08
He's going into Union Point.
08:11
Entering Union Point.
08:17
Those HP cars do not try to do a stationary roadblock, we can't do that and just making sure do not do a stationary roadblock.
08:25
Simple, sir, yeah, that wasn't us craving, tried to block the draw for some reason.
08:33
4241, that's your location.
08:37
On Front Street.
08:39
Back on Front Street.
08:41
They poured off ahead of me, heading back down Pollock Street.
08:46
I am out of it.
08:50
Just like they're heading back down Front Street away from the bridge.
08:54
Still on Front Street, he's doing loops.
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment / OK

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