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From a DUI Stop to a Stolen Police Car

By Conaway and Strickler

After being pulled over for suspicion of DUI, a man decided his best option for escape wasn?t the allegedly stolen U-Haul vehicle he was driving, but the police car that had pulled him over for the possible infraction. According to an article, the main reason police did in fact pull the man over was because he left the scene after apparently striking another automobile, although the man claimed that he didn?t know he had hit another vehicle. Consequently, law enforcement determined that they could smell alcohol on the man?s breath upon closer examination. The man was then handcuffed, and finally placed in the backseat of a police cruiser. So how did the suspect end up in the driver?s seat? In the report, one officer speculates that the man ?was able to slip the handcuffs under his buttocks, get the window open and crawl through it?it can be done...continue to full post

Full post as published by Georgia Criminal Defense Blog on October 01, 2009 (boomark / email).