Pursuit through Southeast Georgia ends in St. Marys following series of PIT maneuvers

ST. MARYS, Ga. – Investigators stated a pursuit by way of Southeast Georgia that concerned a number of regulation enforcement businesses began when police in Kingsland, Georgia, bought a cellphone name from a person in South Carolina, who stated his truck was stolen.

Police stated the person instructed them his son took the truck with out his permission and that he bought a ping on its location in Kingsland. Police confirmed up at a Pilot gasoline station the place the truck was situated, as was the suspect, recognized as Tamija Swinton, 24.

Officers who arrived on the gasoline station requested Swinton to return exterior.

“Your father stated you didn’t have permission to take his car. Do you know you didn’t have permission to take the car?” an officer asks Swinton. He’s seen nodding up and down.

Swinton later instructed the officer that he was headed to Miami. Then, whereas he stood subsequent to the truck, the officer known as his father to clarify that as a result of the car was not formally reported stolen, there was little he might do.

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“I can’t arrest your son,” the officer says.

“Are you able to not less than impound the car or one thing? I want my truck. If he will get that truck, I gained’t see it once more,” the person on the cellphone says,

That is when the officer’s dashcam data Swinton moving into the truck after which main Kingsland police on a chase.

The pace picks up, and moments later, the officer is instructed to name off the chase as a result of Camden County sheriff’s deputies have been going to take over the pursuit.

As deputies enter the chase, the truck is seen weaving alongside the roadway at a excessive charge of pace. With every passing second, the chase seems to get extra harmful because the deputy makes an attempt a PIT maneuver, which fails.

Moments later, one other PIT maneuver sends the truck spinning uncontrolled right into a grassy space, however the pickup is ready to regain management and get again on the street.

A number of minutes later, one other maneuver sends the truck into bushes, however Swinton nonetheless is ready to preserve the truck operating. The chase finally enters downtown St. Mary’s the place one other PIT maneuver sends the truck into the facet of an ice cream store.

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Swinton was finally captured and charged with eluding police, which is a felony. As of Thursday evening, he remained within the Camden County Jail with out bond.