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The half-naked man blamed his woes on alcohol after his dramatic arrest Sunday night time.
FOX 11 LA
Wild video exhibits a suspected drunk driver giving cops the slip throughout a 10-mile chase via the streets of California — whereas shirtless and driving a golf cart with a canine in his lap.
News helicopters filmed a number of Los Angeles Police Department squad automobiles — with lights flashing and sirens blaring — following the cart late Sunday after it was reported stolen from a San Fernando Valley buying middle.
Onlookers could possibly be heard cheering and laughing because the suspect — solely carrying shorts — nonchalantly drove the safety cart with the canine in his lap whereas being chased via busy streets, together with multi-lane foremost roads.
At instances, officers jumped out of their automobiles to attempt to seize him — only for him to repeatedly evade them, regardless that the cart has a prime pace of simply 19 mph, in line with Fox 11.
Cops even tried utilizing spike strips — with out success — earlier than the suspect was lastly boxed in in a 7-Eleven car parking zone about 10 miles from the place the chase began.
There, the shirtless suspect jumped out of the cart and tried to run away, with the canine nonetheless in his arms — and almost two dozens cops now giving chase, the footage exhibits.
As he was captured and handcuffed, his canine initially escaped, simply to even be caught and led away by the leash.
The suspect appeared to handle the canine in an apology caught within the footage, the shops mentioned.
“I’m sorry, Rocky, I’m very sorry,” he was heard saying, in line with KTLA footage.
“I was drinking. I’m an alcoholic. … Don’t drink. Don’t do drugs. Be a better person.”
The LAPD has not recognized the suspect as of Monday, and it was not instantly identified what expenses he was dealing with. The unique name was for theft and grand theft auto, KTLA mentioned.
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