THE STEALTH CRIMINAL WHO MOVES LIKE A GHOST!The Insite and Fox 26 news have learned a man being arrested during a southwest Houston traffic stop managed to get into the driver's seat of a new police stealth car and drove off with the vehicle. HPD confirms the slick theft.
The officer had pulled over the driver on Edgebrook for a seat-belt violation when the man allegedly handed the officer a fake driver's license. The officer locked the man in the back of a new HPD "ghost car" and returned to the man's vehicle to talk to the passenger.
But the suspect somehow managed to get into the driver's seat of the police car and drove off according to police.
The man drove to a nearby gas station parking lot, where he hit an open door of a tow truck, injuring two people. The suspect then drove off and hit a fence in the 500 block of Missouri.
The man was later caught and transported to jail.
The people two people injured suffered minor injuries and were not transported.
Earlier this month, the police department purchased four new vehicles they call the ghost cars. The new vehicles are designed to not look like a typical police car, and the lettering on the side is almost invisible.
Just another example of how mismanaged the Tactical Support Command is under Assistant Vicki King watch.
ReplyDeleteEvery major news story coming out of HPD where screw ups are involved is from this command. The Mobility Response Team deal that Channel 13 ran and now this.
When is the chief of police going to wake up and get rid of these poor performing assistant chief.
Is that the fat lady chief who kept saying it is unacceptable over and over to Wayne?
ReplyDeleteI guess this stupid officer does not handcuff people before putting them in the police car. You would think they would have a policy on hand cuffing people like this.
ReplyDeleteHow much is this going to cost the city (taxpayer) when all these injured people sue the city for this officers dumb actions.
NO, NO, NO, that is the character from saturday nite live "PAT" the one you don't know if it is a girl or guy.
ReplyDeleteThe officers in traffic are pressured to get there ticket numbers or face being booted out to any shift and days off in patrol. With this kind of pressure we do quick fixes on people we stop. NO wonder why something like this has happened
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