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Letting the past haunt your
department?
2004 -
Publicized Escapes
Prisoner
Location
Front
11
3% |
Back
260
82% |
Unknown
44
14% |
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Prisoner Screen
No Cage
15
4% |
Cage
224
71% |
Unknown
76
24% |
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Vehicle Status
Damage
145
46% |
Stolen
57
18% |
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Officer Status
Injured
49
15% |
Killed
2
1% |
|
Prisoner Status
Injured
33
10% |
Killed
16
5% |
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Texas
December 2004
Officers stopped a vehicle which drove through
flares and traffic cones at a traffic crash. As officers approached, they saw the
subject reach for a handgun plus saw four baggies of marijuana and a nearly empty
bottle of whiskey in the car. The officers removed the subject from the car and onto
the freeway shoulder, away from traffic. The man started fighting with the officers
and attempted to jump over a highway wall with the officer hanging on. After being
restrained and placed in a police car, the subject while handcuffed managed to open the
police car door. An officer used pepper spray to subdue the subject again.
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Wyoming
December 2004
Officers arrested a subject after a fight. The subject was handcuffed and
placed in the back seat of a police car. While in the police car, the subject kicked
out a window of the police car and fled on foot. The subject was captured after a
short foot chase and had to be taken for medical treatment.
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Texas
December 2004
Police handcuffed and sat a man in the locked back seat of a marked police cruiser
while the officer was questioning other suspects. The man somehow was able to get
the handcuffs in front of him, manipulate the window and door, and got out. The
officer ran back to his patrol car and tried to hold onto the window as the suspect was
driving off, where the officer was dragged for ten feet. The man slammed the stolen
police car into a pickup truck and tried to run, but was captured again.
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Nevada
December 2004
Police arrested a teenager who had made explosive devices. The officers
placed the teen in the back seat of a patrol car while they took statements. When
officers returned to the patrol car, a rear window was smashed and the teen was
gone. The teen was found and captured again. The teen was treated for an
injury and taken to a detention center.
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Connecticut
December 2004
Officers made contact with a female who was very intoxicated. While waiting
for an ambulance, officer placed the lady in the back seat of the police car. The
lady kicked out a window of the cruiser, and while police tried to get control of her and
take her into custody, she struck one of the officers in the head. She was
transported to the police station, where she continued to be uncooperative and later
kicked another officers in the face. Neither officer suffered serious injury.
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New
York
December 2004
Police were called to investigate a vehicle which crashed into the side of a house.
The passenger attempted to run from the scene but was arrested and placed in the back seat
of the police car. While the officers were interviewing the driver, the prisoner
kicked the back window out of the police car and escaped on foot. One officer was
injured chasing the prisoner.
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Texas
December 2004
Police arrested a man who was attempting to fight others.
Police placed the handcuffed man in the back seat of a patrol car when the man started
kicking the windows. The officers had to use pepper spray to stop the man from
kicking the windows so officers could place him in leg irons. At the station, the
officer discovered the door frame was dislodged because the man had kicked it.
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California
December
2004
Police handcuffed a passenger in a vehicle who
had a gun while another officer found a gun on the driver. The driver resisted and
fought with the officers when one of the officers shot and killed the driver. During
the fight, the passenger escaped.
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New
York
December 2004
Officers arrested a subject who had a concealed handgun. The subject fought with
officers during the arrest which allowed a second subject to escape. While
handcuffed in the back seat of a police unit, the subject kicked out a window which
injured two officers.
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Illinois
December 2004
A lady was struck and killed by a car after being pulled over by a police officer.
The lady was standing between her car and a police car, talking to an officer when she was
struck and killed. A teenaged boy was driving his car when his car hit the lady as
it swung onto the road from the shoulder.
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Virginia
December 2004
An inmate was being transferred back to jail after a court hearing when the inmate
tried to escape by breaking through a protective barrier and attacking the officer with
the deputy then shooting the prisoner in the upper leg. During the struggle, the
patrol unit crashed over an embankment and struck a rock culvert. The prisoner was
taken into custody with the help of jail officers. Jail medical staff attended to
both the deputy's and inmate's injuries until transferred to a hospital.
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Tennessee
December
2004
An officer was arresting two subjects who robbed a store in a stolen vehicle then
attempted to flee on foot before the officer shot one of the subjects with a Taser.
The officer began handcuffing one of the subjects when the second subject was able to get
into the patrol car and speed away with the emergency lights still running. The
subject lost control of the patrol car and struck a culvert, ran up an embankment, and
came to rest in a ditch. The subject then fled the crashed patrol car and broke into
a house in which, a lady was asleep inside. She managed to get out of the house when
the subject passed out on the couch. The subject caused $3,200 damage to the patrol
car which had only been in service for one week.
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California
December
2004
Officers arrested a man for probation violation.
While being detained, the subject was able to get free and attempted to flee on foot, but
captured. The man was then placed in the back seat of a police car and was able to
get out of the police car through the back window. The subject was again captured.
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Wisconsin
December 2004
Police detained a lady who was going to commit suicide. The woman was taken into
protective custody, handcuffed , then placed into the back seat of a police car.
While in custody, the woman kicked the rear passenger side window of the squad car
breaking the window frame away from the doorframe.
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Colorado
December 2004
Police arrested a subject following a hit and run crash. The subject was handcuffed
and placed in the back seat of a police car. The subject was able to free himself
from the handcuffs, get into the front seat, and steal the police car. The subject
attempt to run over a police officers with the police car which caused officers to shoot
at the subject. The subject continued driving and was chased by police until the
subject crashed the police car and fled only to be caught hiding later.
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Nevada
December 2004
A lady being detained for shoplifting was able to slip out of handcuffs, get out
of the police car, and drive off in a vehicle. During the escape, the lady ran over
and injured the officer with the vehicle.
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Alaska
December 2004
A Trooper handcuffed a man and put in the front seat of a patrol car on suspicion that he
had provided a false name. The man was able to get the patrol car door open and ran
from the patrol car into a wooded area. The man had two outstanding warrants, but
was captured again after a four hour manhunt.
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Pennsylvania
December 2004
After a hearing a juvenile was being transport back to a juvenile detention
facility when the handcuffed juvenile started punching a rear-passenger window. When
a member of the transport staff went to get into the back seat, the juvenile fled.
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Montana
December 2004
Officers responded to a report of a disorderly man and found
the subject which also had an illegal license plates on his vehicle, was driving on a
suspended license, and smelled of alcohol. The subject arrested and placed in the
back seat of a patrol unit with the seatbelt on. While being transported, the
subject kicked out the patrol car's window and was able to open the car door while the
patrol unit was still moving. The officer stopped the vehicle, used pepper spray on
the subject, and struggled to get the subject back into the vehicle. About one-half
mile later, the subject kicked the patrol car's door open again and two deputies assisted
in stopping the subject, who was shocked twice with a Taser.
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Colorado
December 2004
A deputy arrested a subject who had kicked in an apartment door. The subject was
handcuffed behind his back, but complained of shoulder pain. The deputy used two
sets of handcuffs connected in a chain to secure the man's arms behind him and placed the
subject back in the patrol unit. While the man was being transported to a nearby
substation, the man slipped out of his handcuffs and got out of the patrol
car. The deputy began struggling with the suspect outside the patrol car when the
man reached for the deputy's gun, which came out of its holster with the gun
discharging. Passers-by reported the fight to other deputies in the area which
responded and helped capture the man again. The man and the deputy were both treated
for injuries.
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Washington
December 2004
Police arrested a man who broke into 4 houses, stole 1 vehicle, broke into another
vehicle, and had illegal drugs. After police put him in a patrol car, the suspect
complained of pain. Officers, unaware that he had slipped out of his handcuffs, let him
stand up and the man fled on foot. Officers recaptured him after another brief struggle.
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California
December
2004
Patrol officers arrested a woman for public drunkenness
then the woman admitted lacing a marijuana cigarette with cocaine. The woman was
handcuffed and placed in a patrol car where she kicked the window out of the patrol car
after she was taken into custody, damaging it.
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Florida
December 2004
A subject was arrested for a probation violation. While handcuffed in the back seat,
the subject kicked out a window of the patrol car and bolted. The arresting officer,
fired a Taser at the subject, but the subject managed to keep going. The officer was
assisted by a citizen who with the officer followed subject in a car. Another
citizen tackled the subject and held him until the officer arrived. The subject was
shot a second time with a Taser, then taken into custody.
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Illinois
December 2004
Police had driven up to the police department with a subject in custody in the police
car. The subject was arrested on a warrant and handcuffed behind his back. The
subject complained of back pain and his handcuffs were removed, the subject then jumped
from the police car and ran through a security gate. Police captured the subject
with one officer suffering minor injuries. The subject has been arrested previously
for escape.
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Pennsylvania
November 2004
Officers stopped a vehicle that made several traffic
violations. Officers were talking to the subjects outside the patrol unit when
officers found alcohol in the vehicle and the passenger gave a false name. When
officers attempted to take the passenger into custody, he fled on foot. The driver
was told he was going to be detained and started flailing his arms and struck an officer
in the face. He ran away from police, entered his vehicle, and fought with police as
he tried to speed away. The subjects were caught but two officers sustained injuries
during the incident.
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Illinois
November 2004
Police were investigating a hit-and-run accident and arrested a subject. While
sitting handcuffed in the back seat of a police car, the subject's mother opened the
police car door allowing the subject to escape. The subject was located again and
fought with police this time before being taken into custody again. One officer was
injured in the fight.
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Illinois
November 2004
An officer stopped a subject for speeding, not wearing a seat belt, and arrested for
DUI. The subject was handcuffed behind his back and placed him in the back seat of
an unmarked squad car. The officer then returned to inventory the subject's
vehicle. The subject somehow managed to bringing the cuffs to the front of his body,
climb into the front seat of the police car, and drive away with the emergency flashing
lights flashing. The subject was stopped and arrested a short time later.
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Arizona
November 2004
After being arrested for a string robberies, the suspect claimed he was sick and couldn't
breathe. He was checked by paramedics and found to be faking. As a precaution,
police used two sets of handcuffs to restrain the man's hands behind his back. When police
arrived at the Precinct, the man had managed to bring his handcuffed hands to the front so
when the officer opened the back door of a patrol vehicle, the suspect knocked the officer
to the ground and ran. The suspect was able to scale a precinct block wall and the
suspect attempted to get control of the vehicle and car-jack an older man. The
officer caught up with the suspect and they fought, with the officer shooting the suspect
to stop the kidnapping.
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New
Mexico
November 2004
A man arrested for an outstanding warrant was being transported in the back seat of a
patrol car. The man broke the set of plastic handcuffs he was wearing and broke the
back window of the patrol car with his head, then squeezed out the window as the patrol
car slowed to a stop. The officer chased and caught the man then shot him with a
taser gun and held him until backup. The man and officer were both taken to the
emergency room for minor injuries.
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Illinois
November 2004
Police responded to a report of a loud party. Officers were talking to a
group of people when one of them became agitated and at one point, taunting the police
dog. After that the man began fighting with officers and was arrested being
handcuffed and placed in a police car. Once inside the police car, the man kicked
out a window and damaged the door frame.
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California
November
2004
A prisoner being transported from court to a
federal detention facility tried to escape from a transport van by kicking the window
out. The van driver stopped and the two deputy marshals in the van requested help
from sheriff's deputies and police officers, who assisted in subduing the prisoner again.
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Maryland
November 2004
Officers arrested two suspects for outstanding warrants and placed both of them in
the back seat of a police unit. As officers placed the suspects' mother into custody
for harboring a felon, one of the suspects was able to free one hand from the handcuffs
and charged uniformed officers in an attempt to prevent his mother's arrest. The
suspect resisted arrest for several minutes before he was placed into custody again.
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Oregon
November 2004
An officer arrived at the scene and arrested two men who
were involved in a fight. One subject was handcuffed and placed in a police car
without incident. Officers attempted to place the resisting subject in handcuffs,
but he fought back. The man continued to resist officers as they tried to put him
into a nearby police car. In an effort to control him, officers used a Taser, which
enabled them to subdue the resisting man long enough to get him into the patrol car.
After only a few seconds, the resisting subject kicked out the rear driver's window of a
police car. Officers removed him and further retrained him prior to transporting him to
Jail.
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Maine
November
2004
Officers responded to a store for two girls who were stopped in the
store for shoplifting and then both girls punched an employee. When the officers
arrived, the girls were placed in separate police cruisers where each girl kicked out a
window in each of the police cars.
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Florida
November
2004
An armed robbery suspect was being transported
handcuffed behind his back and in the back seat for questioning, when he kicked out
the back window of the patrol unit. The suspect was able to get his hands in front
of his body, remove his belt, and then attempted to strangle a deputy as they were
arriving the station. Other officers saw the struggle and assisted.
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California
November
2004
A deputy was transporting a prisoner to jail who was accused of shooting someone
to death during a gang fight. The prisoner was handcuffed and being transported in
the back seat of the patrol unit, when the prisoner somehow got free of the handcuffs and
out of a sheriff's transport car then fled on foot. The prisoner has already escaped
once before.
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Washington
November 2004
An officer arrested a lady for DUI and handcuffed behind her back then placed in
the back seat of a patrol unit. While the officer was arresting a passenger of the
vehicle, the lady was able to open the door and get out of the patrol unit, but caught by
a another officer that just arrived at the scene.
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Iowa
November 2004
A prisoner was being transported from the main jail where he was working as a
trustee in the kitchen back to his cell at the Jail Annex when he was able to escape from
the transport van. The prisoner reached through the window and used the door handle
on the outside of the vehicle. The transport van has bars on the windows and the
windows open only so far, but the prisoner was able to get to the outside handle which
allowed the prisoner to open the door from the inside. Four other prisoners were in
the van at the time, but decided not to try and run. The van door has now been
modified.
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Kentucky
November 2004
A prisoner sentenced to 30 years in prison for shooting a man and a woman, was
being transported back to jail handcuffed behind his back with shackles on in the back
seat of a caged patrol car. The prisoner got out of the shackles and handcuffs, then
escaped the back seat of the patrol car and fled. The prisoner was captured the next
day.
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Ohio
November
2004
Police arrested a subject for a series of burglaries. The subject was
handcuffed and in the back seat of a police car when an officer drove the subject to a
different location to identify another suspect. The subject climbed through the
divider and into the driver seat then started to drive away. The suspect hit another
car and drove on, ditching the police car later then running away even though he was still
handcuffed. The cruiser was found a short time later.
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Washington
November 2004
A jail inmate on a corrections bus slipped out of ankle shackles and kicked out a
window to escape when the bus stopped at an intersection. The inmate ran across a
parking lot with jail guards chasing him and firing a couple of shots, but no one was
hit. A bystander tackled the inmate who was being held for investigation of robbery,
assault and possession of a stolen firearm.
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Illinois
November 2004
Police arrested a subject for domestic disturbance after he
threatened to attack a lady with a knife and brass knuckles. The subject was cuffed
with his hands behind his back and seated in the back seat of a squad car with the doors
locked. While two police officers were inside a house talking with the lady; the
subject he managed to free his hands, climbed through an opening in the plastic window
between the front and back seats, and exited through a front door. The subject fled
on foot but was captured again about an hour later.
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New York
November 2004
Three officers were transporting a teen female subject with her
hands handcuffed behind her back. Two officers went to pick up another suspect,
leaving the teen female subject with a sergeant in the transport vehicle. The teen
slipped the handcuff off her left hand, then slipped her cuffed right hand into the open
cuff and hit the sergeant in the face then fled on foot. The sergeant was treated
and released.
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Oklahoma
November 2004
Officers arrested a subject after he fled in a vehicle then ran
on foot. The subject was running because of illegal drugs. A Trooper made
contact and arrested the subject. The subject was handcuffed behind his back and put
into the front seat of the patrol unit, when the subject kicked out the windshield and
radio equipment. A police car with a cage was called and the subject was placed in
the back seat of the caged unit with the subject banging his head into the plastic cage
window and breaking it. During transport, the subject attempted to slip his
handcuffs under himself and after securing the subject again, another officer rode in the
back seat with the subject onto jail.
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Nebraska
November 2004
A deputy attempted to stop a
vehicle for running a red light, but the subject attempted to flee officers but deputies
boxed the subject in. The subject was cuffed by the ankles and wrists in the back of
a patrol car en route to jail when he managed to get his seatbelt off then laid down in
the backseat and kicked out the rear window. The subject then attempted to
crawl out of the moving patrol car, but captured again.
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Connecticut
November 2004
Officers arrested a subject who was involved in a motor
vehicle crash then left the scene. The intoxicated subject was located and
arrested. The subject was handcuffed behind his back and placed in the back of a
police cruiser. When the cruiser was arriving the police station, the subject kicked
out the cruiser’s rear window and spit at an officer.
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Illinois
November 2004
Officers arrested a man for stealing a vehicle and the stereo system from that
vehicle. While being transported to jail, the subject kicked the rear passenger
window from two different squad cars and threw himself from one of the moving cars in an
attempt to escape police. The man was handcuffed and strapped into the squad cars
with a seatbelt restraint system when he kicked out the squad windows and attempted to
escape. He was transported by ambulance and hospitalized.
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Oklahoma
October 2004
Officers arrested a subject for DUI. The
subject was handcuffed behind her back and placed in the front seat of the patrol unit
with a seatbelt applied. Officers from another department arrived and were watching
the subject while the arresting officer did a vehicle inventory. During the
inventory, the officers watching the prisoners told the arresting officer that the
prisoner was about to steal his patrol car. The officer got to the subject before
she could get away.
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Alabama
October 2004
A subject was taken into custody by a deputy and the subject
became unruly. The subject kicked the glass out of the patrol car and was able to
obtain a taser gun and repeatedly shocked the deputy. As assistance arrived, an
investigator with the sheriff's office shot and killed the subject.
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Alabama
October 2004
Police stopped a vehicle for speeding and during a search found 17.5 pounds of pot
hidden under blankets. While the suspect was detained in the back of a squad car, he
reached through an open window, unlatched the door and fled on foot.
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Washington
October
2004
A prisoner bashed in the window of a squad car parked in the parking lot, somehow
got the car started, and took off. The prisoner made it to a remote lake area where
he left the car and took off on foot. The prisoner took the rifle from the squad
car, and broke into a nearby house, threatening the elderly couple inside. A
neighbor confronted the suspect, and the prisoner shot at the man wounding him, but not
seriously. The suspect kept running, but was caught a short time later.
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New
York
October
2004
Police arrested a subject who caused a drunken-driving car accident that killed
another man. The subject was handcuffed and placed in a police car when the subject
tried to kick the rear window out of a police cruiser, causing more than $250 worth of
damage.
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North
Carolina
October 2004
A man was arrested for outstanding
warrants. The man was handcuffed behind his back and placed in the back seat of a
police car which had a locked prisoner partition in it. The prisoners worked his
handcuffs from behind his back, climbed through a partition in the cruiser and sped away,
hitting things and damaging the police car. The man lost control of the police car
and slid into a parking lot slamming into a 1986 Ford F-150, sending the truck onto its
side. A lady and her great-granddaughter were in the parking lot approximately
10 feet away from the crash. The truck that was damaged was uninsured and had about
117,000 miles on it. The owner of the truck doesn't think he'll ever find another
truck like it and plans on filing a lawsuit against the city for allowing the prisoner to
steal the patrol car and hit his truck. The prisoner suffered minor injuries while
the police car sustained extensive front-end damage, and the pickup truck was a total
loss.
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Tennessee
October
2004
Officers arrested 3 subjects for drug charges. The subjects
were handcuffed and placed in a police car for transport. While transporting the
subjects to jail, the officer drove up on a motor vehicle crash with an injured person
partly ejected and yelling for help. The officer called for assistance and went to
help the injured person. While the officer was helping with the crash, one of the
arrested subjects started kicking the window of the police car. The officer tried to
radio for help again, but one of the subjects jumped out of the police car and ran away
still handcuffed.
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Tennessee
October
2004
An accused rapist and
armed robber was being transported to a maximum security jail, when the subject kicked
open the doors of the transport van and fled on foot while being handcuffed. After a
manhunt, the subject was captured again.
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Oregon
October 2004
Police arrested a man on charges of disorderly
conduct and harassment violations. When a deputy arrived, he observed broken glass
and evidence of a physical altercation between the intoxicated man and a woman in the
living room. The man was uncooperative and, while in the patrol vehicle, kicked and
damaged a rear door. While being transported to the jail, the man banged his head against
the plexiglass screen, cutting his forehead.
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Pennsylvania
October 2004
Officers stopped a man on traffic violations
and a struggle ensued. A loaded semiautomatic pistol dropped from the subject's
pants during the fight. The subject punched, kicked, and clawed the officers in an
effort to retrieve the weapon, but was handcuffed behind his back and placed in the back
seat of a police car. The subject continued to resist and kicked out the window of
the patrol car and bent the doorframe of a police car. Police recovered the gun with
15 rounds of ammunition and an obliterated serial number. Also found was 15 grams of crack
cocaine.
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Indiana
October
2004
A subject assaulted his estranged wife and was caught. Officers handcuffed the
subject behind his back and placed him in the back seat of a police car. When the
officer went to check on the victim, the subject was able to escape through a back
window of the car and ran away. After a 12 hours manhunt, the subject was captured
again.
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Ohio
October
2004
During a traffic stop, a man gave a Trooper a false name and information.
The man had two outstanding warrants and was found to have marijuana and crack pipe in his
possession. The man was handcuffed behind his back and placed in the back of the
patrol car. As the Trooper finished the traffic contact, the man was able to get out
of the patrol car and flee on foot.
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Pennsylvania
October 2004
A Constable was transporting a prisoner for court. During
the 30-mile trip, the prisoner managed to use a twisted paper clip to pick four different
locks on his handcuffs and leg shackles before bailing out the rear door and escaping into
a wooded area. The prisoner was caught a few days later.
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Michigan
October
2004
Police stopped a car for erratic driving. The subject was swearing profusely
and did not have any identification with him or paperwork for the car. Dispatch was
unable to locate any record on the name given by the subject, so the subject was
handcuffed and placed in the back seat of a police car. While the officer was
searching the subject's car, the subject escaped from the back seat of the patrol car and
not located by the officer.
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Missouri
October 2004
Police arrested a subject for an outstanding warrant. The subject complained
of stomach pain, and was taken to a hospital but diagnosed as having kidney stones.
As an officer was taking him to the jail to be held, the subject jumped from the car as it
slowed near an intersection. The officer chased the subject on foot, and a manhunt
was started, which included a police dog and helicopter. The subject was caught
about an hour later.
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Canada
October
2004
Montreal police are looking for a man who led them on a chase early Wednesday
morning after he drove off in a stolen police car. Police arrived at a residence on
Gordon St. in Verdun after receiving complaints of a man yelling threats outside the
premises. They tried to arrest the man, but he resisted and fled in a patrol car. In
the ensuing chase, the man stole a Verdun public works vehicle which he ultimately crashed
into a pole in an alley near the intersection of 5th Ave. and Champlain Blvd.
Despite the crash, the suspect managed to escape on foot. Police are attempting to find
him, but have no description of the man.
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Ohio
October
2004
A man along with four females were arrested after the man allowed known
prostitutes to gather there to smoke crack cocaine in the presence of his 13-year-old
daughter. After one of the females had been placed under arrest, was able to
maneuver her way out of her handcuffs and slipped out the rear door of the house, but was
captured.
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Tennessee
October
2004
An Officer stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation and learned through a license
plate computer check that the car was stolen. The subject jumped out of the car and
fled into a wooded area leaving his wallet and driver's license in the stolen car.
Officers learned the subject was wanted in Kentucky on weapons and drug charges and was
considered armed and dangerous. The subject then stolen a pickup truck with a
handgun inside it. Police later found the truck abandoned but the handgun was
gone. Detectives found and arrested the subject who was in a taxi cab. The
subject was handcuffed with his hands behind his back and he was placed into the rear seat
of the detectives' vehicle, which did not have a screen between the front and rear seats.
The detectives then called for a patrol car to take him to jail, and went to search for
the gun. The subject somehow got his hands in front of him, climbed over the
front seat, and shifted the car into gear. The detectives yelled for the subject to
stop and pulled out their guns, but the subject sped faster towards the detectives when
they opened fire. The shots punctured two tires and pierced the windshield and the
passenger side of the car. One bullet hit the subject in the back of the head, below
his right ear, while a second hit him in the right thigh. The subject continued to
flee in the detectives unit and crossed the county line where the subject stopped and
surrendered.
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Florida
October
2004
Two bondsmen handcuffed a subject behind his back that
had come to their bonding company. They told the subject the bond was going to be
rescinded and they were going to take the subject to jail. The subject was placed in
the back of a van with the engine running while they locked the door of the bonding
company. The subject was able to get his handcuffs to the front of his body, get
into the driver's seat, and drove off. The subject reportedly swerved towards one of
the bondsmen and shots were fired at the van, hitting the passenger side of the front
windshield. The two bondsmen followed in another car and called 911.
Authorities found the van abandoned and Deputies used a helicopter to find the subject on
a rooftop where he was arrested again without incident.
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Oklahoma
October
2004
Officers arrested a subject for impersonating a
police officer. The subject was handcuffed and placed in the back seat of a patrol
unit for transport to jail. When the officer pulled up to the station, the suspect
kicked open the door of the police car and fled on foot into a neighborhood across the
street from the police station. Police tracked the subject down and re-arrested the
subject.
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New
Jersey
October 2004
Officers arrested a woman for outstanding
warrants. The officers handcuffed the woman behind her back and were attempting to
escort her to the patrol unit, but the woman resisted and bit one of the officers.
The woman remained combative and pepper spray was used to overcome her resistance.
After being placed in the rear of a patrol vehicle, the woman was calm for a few seconds
before kicking at a window, forcing officers to use pepper spray again to subdue her.
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New
Mexico
October 2004
A prisoner that was being held for murder,
escaped during a transfer to another detention center. The prisoner had smuggled a
large handcuff key on the bus, unlocked his shackles and ran out an open gate as another
transfer van entered the area. Officers were able to capture the prisoner just a few
minutes later.
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Pennsylvania
October 2004
School officials asked police to escort two teenagers from a football game for
smoking. The boys resisted and assaulted officers, so police arrested them. While
police were trying to leave with the boys in a police cruiser, a group formed. The group
included the father of one of the boys, who managed to reach inside the cruiser and open
the back door so the boys could get out. One 14-year-old ran away in handcuffs, but police
prevented the other 16-year-old boy from escaping. Officers then arrested the father
of the 16-year-old initially arrested. Twice more before police could get to the
police station, crowds of at least 30 people blocked the street and tried to free the
people in the police cars. Another teen was arrested for trying to interfere. The 14
year old turned himself in later that evening.
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Oklahoma
September 2004
A Trooper arrested a lady for driving under the
influence and drug charges. She was handcuffed behind her back and was being
transported to jail, when she was able to removed her seatbelt and was going to open the
patrol car door in an attempt to jump from the patrol car while in motion. The
Trooper was able to secure the lady and continued the transport.
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Nevada
September 2004
Troopers arrested a lady for drunken driving. The lady was handcuffed and
placed in the patrol car where she became verbally abusive, combative, and kicked out the
rear window of the patrol car.
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Minnesota
September
2004
Police were checking a report of an assault but no one would answer the
door. Officers entered the residence with a search warrant and found seven men
- including the two alleged assailants - and one woman. Officers handcuffed the two
alleged assailants and put them in the back seat of a police car. Others also were
handcuffed and placed in other law enforcement vehicles. While the house was being
searched, one of the two alleged assailants slipped out of his handcuffs, jumped into the
front seat of the police cruiser and sped away, with the other man still in the back
seat. More than a dozen officers from several agencies and a helicopter searched the
area. The men were captured and the stolen police car was recovered with
some damage.
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Kentucky
September 2004
Police arrested the man and two others in a drug bust. Undercover detectives
had made arrangements to buy drugs from the men. In a room at the hotel the officers
arrested the men but one man was able to break free and ran out of the hotel.
Officers ran after the man who had not been handcuffed, but the man ran into
traffic. He was struck and killed by a car.
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Tennessee
September
2004
Officers arrested a man after a traffic stop which turned
into a drug bust. While the officers were investigating, the suspect managed
to escape from the patrol car and police think the man received help to escape.
Officers are unsure how the man escape, but he was caught and arrested again later.
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Maryland
September 2004
Officers arrested a woman for assault, attempt to elude police, and escape.
Officers found a party with minor and alcohol present. Officers asked
identification, but the woman refused to give any, slapped the officer's flashlight away,
and later tried to get away from the officers. The woman was handcuffed and placed
in the back seat of the police car. The woman was able to unlatched her seat belt
and tried to escape.
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Mississippi
September 2004
A deputy arrested a subject for driving under the influence and placed him
handcuffed behind his back in the back seat of a caged patrol unit. While the deputy
was getting information, the subject was able to slip his handcuffs to the front of his
body and squeeze into the front seat after removing a panel from between the seats and
sped off. The patrol car was discovered abandoned on a county road several miles
away and the subject turned himself in later still wearing handcuffs.
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California
September
2004
Deputies arrested five people at an apartment, including a man who attempted to
escape by kicking out a rear window of a patrol car. The man was found in a bedroom
with an AK-47 style assault rifle. The gun was loaded with a round in the chamber.
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Florida
September 2004
Officers arrested a subject following a domestic
dispute. The subject was handcuffed and placed in a patrol car, but police left the
window partly open so they could communicate with him. When the officer was getting more
information, the subject was able to get his hands in front of him, reach through the open
window, open the door to the cruiser, and fled on foot. Officers chased down the
subject on foot a few blocks from the scene and arrested him again.
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Virginia
September 2004
Two juveniles were being transported by a deputy handcuffed and shackled to the
back seat of a patrol car. During the transport, the deputy had opened the window
that separates prisoners from officers to answer a question from one of the
juveniles. At some point of the transport, one of the juveniles was able to free
himself from a handcuff and shackle. When the deputy stopped at an intersection; one
of the juveniles reached through the opening and grabbed for the deputy's handgun and a
struggle ensued. Two men in a car behind the deputy, helped the deputy control the
gun and restrain the juvenile again. The deputy was slightly injured.
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California
September
2004
A Trooper arrested a subject who had been driving a stolen vehicle. The
subject was handcuffed behind his back and placed in the patrol unit while the Trooper
obtained information. The subject was able to get his hands in front of his body and
into the driver seat of the patrol unit before the Trooper saw the subject. The
subject and Trooper fought, with the subject grabbing the Trooper's pistol and at least
one round was discharged through the patrol unit's driver side door. The subject was
subdued by the Trooper and motorists who stopped to assist. The subject and Trooper
suffered minor injuries and the patrol was damaged.
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West Virginia
September 2004
A deputy attempted to stop a vehicle which failed to stop at a stop sign and the vehicle was found to have been
stolen. The subject stopped and after the deputy noticed the smell of
marihuana. The subject jumped back into his vehicle and sped away. After a
pursuit the driver exited the car and ran into nearby woods, but was captured after a
struggle which involved pepper spray and taken into custody. The subject was placed
handcuffed in the back seat of a caged police unit. The subject complained of
discomfort from the pepper spray and a deputy lowered a shield separating the front and
back seats to provide him more air, as well as providing water. The deputy returned
to the woods to search for a missing item and upon returning to the patrol unit,
discovered that the subject had climbed over the seat and escaped by stealing the patrol
unit. The subject was later captured again and the patrol unit recovered with slight
damage.
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Mississippi
September 2004
A subject that was arrested for attempting to elude and shooting at a
Trooper. Troopers found a handgun, crack cocaine, powder cocaine, and marijuana plus
that the subject was wanted for questioning in a homicide. While in the transport
vehicle, the subject was able to get his handcuffed hands in front of his body and into
the driver seat of the vehicle before being stopped.
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Alabama
September 2004
Officers arrested a subject for drunken driving. The subject was handcuffed
and placed in the back seat of a cage police car. While the officers went to
inventory the subject's vehicle, the subject was able to get the handcuffs in front of his
body, squeezed past the screen between the seats, and drove off with the police car.
The police car was found abandoned.
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North Carolina
September
2004
Police were transporting a handcuffed suspect who shot a person and abducted his
wife. While one officer drove and another officer rode in the back seat with the
suspect, the subject managed to break out a side window while the patrol car was traveling
on the interstate and lunging out the window. He was injured during the escape
attempt and taken to a hospital for treatment.
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Georgia
September 2004
Police arrested a man for forgery and placed him handcuffed into the back seat of
a caged police car. While the officer was obtaining information, the man maneuvered
his hands to the front side of his body, was able to open the sliding-glass partition on
the cage, slip into the front seat of the patrol car, and sped away. During the
chase one officer was injured and the patrol unit was crashed.
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Texas
September
2004
An officer is being investigated after a subject was arrested and placed
handcuffed in the back seat of a caged police car. While transporting the subject to
jail, the subject stated the officer slammed on the brakes when another vehicle pulled in
front the police car and the subject was thrown against the partition between the front
and back seats because the officer did not fasten the subject's seatbelt. The
subject further stated the officer looked at him in the rearview mirror and smiled then
repeated the action at least seven more times during the transport. The officer
stated the injuries were self-inflicted by the subject which was intoxicated and throwing
himself at the divider during transport.
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Pennsylvania
September 2004
The Sheriff's Department arrested a man for second-degree
criminal mischief and second-degree harassment, which resulted in an investigation into a
domestic between the man and his sister. While being detained in the patrol vehicle,
he kicked out the rear window and damaged the door.
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Michigan
September 2004
Police arrested a man after he killed the woman he loved of three
years by hitting her in the back of the head with a hammer. The man called a friend
and then police to tell them what he did. At some point the man attempted to kill
himself by putting a small appliance in a bathtub filled with water, but the low current
did little. Police arrested the man and put him handcuffed in the back seat of a
police car. The man kicked out the police car window before getting to the police
station.
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Maine
September
2004
An inmate was being transported from the jail to the hospital which is about one mile
away. The inmate kicked a window out of the transport vehicle, then jumped out while
it was still traveling at a considerable speed. The inmate was seriously
injured.
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Illinois
September 2004
Police arrested a man who stolen a vehicle and
attempted to elude police. The man was slightly injured during the arrest and was
transported to a local hospital. The man was handcuffed behind his back while
he was at the hospital, but when the officer opened the rear door of her squad car the
suspect had the handcuffs in front of his body, and jumped out of the car and fled on
foot.
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Pennsylvania
September 2004
Police arrested an intoxicated subject who was very loud and
threatening police. When the officers were unsuccessful at calming him down, the
subject was handcuffed and taken into custody being placed in a police car. The
subject rolled onto his back and used both feet to kick out a window.
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Montana
September 2004
Guards were transporting six inmates stopped at a fast food establishment where one of the
guards went inside. Four inmates escaped from the transport van by breaking the
windows out. Two inmates were captured quickly, but the other two inmates (convicted
murderers) attempted to steal a car while still wearing chains and handcuffs. They
were eventually captured again several hours later.
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Alabama
August 2004
Police arrested a suspect after a high speed car chase which caused damage to
three cars in process and even driving through Mayor's front lawn. The suspect
finally abandoned the truck and tried to run from police on foot, but was apprehend by a
civilian and police. The suspect was placed into the back seat of a patrol car where
he kicked out the back window of the car and caused damage to one of the doors.
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South
Dakota
August 2004
Police arrested a woman wanted for a failure to appear warrant
for disorderly conduct. When officers arrived, the woman gave a false name and when
she was being arrested; the woman spit on officers. The woman was placed in the
patrol car and kicked a window out of the unit.
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Florida
August 2004
Police arrested an armed robbery suspect who car jacked a person. The suspect was
taken into custody, handcuffed and placed in the back seat of a police car. While in
the back seat, the suspect kicked out a window of the police car.
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Kentucky
August 2004
A man out on bond for counterfeiting charges was arrested again for additional charges of
counterfeiting. The man was handcuffed in his living room while Secret Service
agents looked for evidence, but then slipped the handcuffs and escaped through the front
door. When a deputy attempted to stop him, the man shoved the officer, nearly knocking him
down, and was taken back into custody soon after.
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Michigan
August 2004
A man was arrested on drug charges and placed handcuffed in the back seat of a police
car. While the officers were searching the man's vehicle, the man was able to get
the handcuffs in front of his body, jump into the driver seat, and speed off the wrong way
on a one way street. The officers found the man hiding in a residence and arrested
the man again.
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Kansas
August 2004
Officers arrested a 17 year old subject who was intoxicated and fighting with other family
members. The subject was placed handcuffed and seatbelted in the back seat of a
police unit. The subject was able to unfasten his seatbelt and kick out the side
window, causing about $500 in damage plus injuring one officer and the subject.
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Pennsylvania
August 2004
Officers stopped a subject for traffic violations and found a rifle in the
subject's vehicle. The subject was placed in the back seat of a police car while the
officers search the subject's vehicle. The subject jumped into the driver's seat of
the police car, started the car, and pulled away. One of the officers managed to get
partly into the police car and struggled with the subject as he drove off, eventually
shifting the car into park, and pulling the keys from the ignition.
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Florida
August 2004
Officers discovered a man gave police a false name, they handcuffed him and put him in the
back of the patrol car. The man managed to slip out of the handcuffs and crawl
through the caged window portion of the cruiser to the front seat, then drove away with
the overhead lights still activated.
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Louisiana
August 2004
A Trooper stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation. The Trooper called
for backup, and found 77 pound of marihuana in the vehicle's interior when one of the men
jumped into the driver's seat, cranked the engine and started driving away. One
Trooper jumped into the passenger seat as the car lurched forward, while another
Trooper tried to restrain the driver through the driver's side window. The 2nd
Trooper was thrown free of the car when the driver accelerated and after heading towards
oncoming interstate traffic and repeated commands to stop, the first Trooper shot and
killed the suspect.
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Connecticut
August 2004
Police stopped a
vehicle for traffic violations and placed both people from the vehicle in the back of the
police cruiser. The female claimed that she had insurance, but she did not know where her
card was. When she discovered she would be charged for failure to have insurance,
she allegedly became enraged and started to bang on the divider window of the prisoner
partition and kicking the back door window. The officer opened the door to the
cruiser and tried to handcuff her, but she refused to comply and kicked the officer.
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Georgia
August
2004
Police found a man passed out at the steering wheel of his running vehicle.
The man was arrested and placed in the back seat of the patrol vehicle. While being transported to jail, the man began
banging his head against the plastic partition that separates the back seat from the front
seat. According to a police report, the man suffered cuts to his forehead.
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Alabama
August 2004
Officers were checking on the welfare of a minor child and discovered drugs.
A man was arrested and placed, handcuffed behind his back, in the backseat of a patrol
car. When an officer noticed the man had slipped the handcuffs from his back to his
front, the man was removed from the police car and placed in more restrictive restraints
and put back into the police car. The man then kicked the back window out of the
police car.
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South
Carolina
August 2004
Deputies arrested a man for a shooting. The subject was handcuffed and
placed in the back seat of a patrol car. While the deputies were searching a bag the
subject had, the subject was able to slip a hand out of the handcuffs and grab a gun
hidden on his leg then threatened to kill himself. The subject later fell asleep and
arrested again without incident.
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Missouri
August
2004
An officer handcuffed a man behind his back when the man was not being truthful
then placed the man in the back seat of the police car. While the officer was
standing near the vehicle,
the man slipped the cuffs to the front, jumped into the front seat, and drove off.
The man crashed the police car into another vehicle which injured the other motorist, then
fled on foot.
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Connecticut
August 2004
Police arrested a man after he hit a woman with a baseball bat. The man was placed
handcuffed into the back seat of a new police car. While the transporting officer
turned to speak to the arresting officer, the suspect squeezed through the plastic
partition that divided the back seat from the front seat. The transport officer
grabbed the man but the man sped off in the police car dragging the officer. The
officer suffered a broken leg, the man crashed the police car, and was
captured.
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Nebraska
August 2004
A Trooper
stopped a vehicle
for speeding and arrest the driver who was on parole in California. The trooper
called for backup to help place the four occupants of the vehicle
into custody. During a search of the vehicle, the Trooper and other officers found
30 pounds of marijuana. While officers were searching the vehicle, the suspects were
able to get the patrol car door open and fled on foot.
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Utah
August 2004
During a traffic stop a man started acting strangely and grabbed for a large knife.
Officers handcuffed the man and placed him in the police car. While the officers
were inventorying the man's vehicle, the man was able to escape and flee on foot.
The man was caught about 2 hours later.
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Oklahoma
August 2004
Deputies were taking a female subject's teenage daughter into protective custody when the
subject refused to cooperate and told her daughter to run. The subject became
combative and began ripping the uniforms of two deputies. The subject was handcuffed
and placed in the back seat of a caged patrol car. The subject was able to slip a
hand out of the handcuffs and opened a window. She got in the front seat of the patrol car
and attempted to drive away when a deputy tried to grab the keys out of the
ignition. The subject rolled up the window, trapping the officer's arm briefly, and
drove about ¼-mile before abandoning the car on a dead-end road. She escaped into a
heavily wooded area.
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California
August 2004
Officers arrested a subject for firearm and vandalism charges. The subject was
handcuffed and placed in the back seat of a police unit. The subject was able to
kick the door window out of a patrol car and then attempted to escape, but was captured.
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Pennsylvania
August 2004
A suspect was arrested on charges of burglary and
theft. While the suspect was handcuffed in the back of a patrol car, he managed to
slip his arms through the security cage, grab the officer’s keys from the front of
the car, and unlock his cuffs. The suspect then fled into woods on foot and was
captured about 3 hours later.
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Colorado
August 2004
A federal inmate was taken to a hospital for treatment. The
prisoner claimed he is injured and was able to slip out of the nylon leg restraints,
unlock a side door of the transport van, open the door, and flee on foot.
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California
July 2004
A lady was arrested for assault and battery of her roommate. The woman was
handcuffed and placed in the back seat of a patrol unit. The woman then started
banging her head on the back seat of the patrol vehicle, cutting her face. She was taken
to the hospital for treatment prior to booking.
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Canada
July
2004
Officers responded to a complaint of a possible
impaired driver and arrested a man and placed him in the back seat of the police car, at
which time the suspect became violent and abusive to the police officer. On the way back
to the detachment, the man kicked out both back windows, as well as damaging the frames of
both rear doors.
A few days later, officers followed up on a complaint of a man lying on the front lawn of
a residence. Police arrested the man for intoxication. The officer attempted
to take the suspect to a residence but the suspect was unable to find the right
house. As the officer was pulling away from a residence, the suspect kicked out the
rear window of the police vehicle.
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North Carolina
July 2004
A deputy responded to a call of a man behaving strangely. When the deputy
arrived, the man got inside the deputy’s cruiser and said, "Someone is trying to
kill me". Some paperwork fell out of the car when the man opened the door. When
deputy got out of the car to retrieve the papers, the man moved to the driver’s seat
and drove off with the car. The man drove around the block before stopping and
eventually getting out of the car. The man was taken into custody.
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Florida
July
2004
A woman was arrested after robbing a man; handcuffed and placed in the back seat of a
patrol car with a transport partition. While in the patrol car, the woman was able
to get one hand out of the handcuffs, and she clawed her way out through a window, and out
of the patrol car. The officer chased her on foot and caught her but the woman began
kicking the deputy and was started to flee on foot again when the deputy stopped the woman
with a Taser.
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Georgia
July
2004
A lady was arrested for trying to buy a high-end television with a phony check. The
lady was arrested with her hands cuffed behind her back and placed in the back seat of the
police car. While being transported to jail, the lady was able to slip out of her
handcuffs, grab the bogus check and eat it.
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California
July 2004
An officer detained a man who was "acting bizarre". During the contact,
the man attempted to get the shotgun mounted in the patrol unit and then attempted to
steal the patrol unit. The officer and man fought for a period of time before the
officer shot the man.
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Virginia
July 2004
A man picked up on drug charges, handcuffed and put in the back of a police cruiser
squeezed through a 16-inch window to the front seat and drove off. The officer
walked around the back of the car, stopped at the trunk. The man abandoned the
police car and fled on foot.
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Kansas
July
2004
An officer approached a vehicle which may have been in a crash. When a woman and two
men led the officer on a short chase, but were quickly caught. The woman was
handcuffed and placed in the back of a patrol vehicle. When officers weren't
looking, the woman kicked a window out, crawled out, and escaped on foot. Police
located her six hours later.
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Colorado
July
2004
Officers arrested a man for a parole violation of a robbery charge. The man was
handcuffed sitting in the back of the patrol car when he removed the seatbelt, kicked out
the window of the police car, slipped his handcuffed arms in front of him and ran
off.
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Oregon
July
2004
Three handcuffed teenagers escaped from a transport van which was en-route to a detention
center. The van stopped in traffic and one teen was able to open the van door and
all the fled on foot. The teens stole a car, but were caught after a short car
chase.
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Tennessee
July 2004
Officers arrested an intoxicated driver and a passenger for drug possession. While
the officer was transporting the prisoners, one of the subjects started head-butting the
back window, breaking it. The other subject began kicking the windows of another
patrol car while being transported.
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Michigan
July 2004
A man who was standing on a front porch wielding a chain saw was arrested. After
being handcuffed, the man became combative and ran from deputies. The deputies again
apprehended him, he slipped his handcuffed arms from behind his back to his front and
threatened to harm a deputy. The man was subdued with a Taser, handcuffed again and placed
in the rear of a patrol vehicle. Shortly after being put in the vehicle, the man kicked
out a rear door window.
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Utah
July 2004
An police officer pulled a woman over, suspecting her car was
stolen. The suspect gave the officer false information and was arrested. The
woman slipped out of the handcuffs, jumped in the car and took off, dragging the officer
several feet. Police chased the woman for a few blocks until she ran a red light and
crashed into a white SUV.
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Texas
July 2004
Narcotic Officers arrested a suspect on drug charges and was transporting him to jail,
when the suspect attempted to stab the deputy who was driving the transport vehicle.
The deputy lost control of the vehicle for a short time to defend himself and suffered a
hand wound. The suspect was found after an all day hunt.
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Michigan
July 2004
Officers arrested a subject for a domestic disturbance at his home after he threatened
authorities with a pack of dogs. Police were met in the yard by the subject who was
holding nine dogs on leashes. The subject threatened to let the dogs go and asked police
to shoot him. The subject was restrained, handcuffed, and placed in the back of a patrol
car. While in the back seat of the police unit, the subject shattered a rear
passenger window with his feet.
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Texas
July 2004
Police pulled over a car with three suspects and found several suspicious items in the
vehicle. During this time, one of the suspects managed to free himself from his
handcuffs and get behind the wheel of a Mustang police car. The cruiser, with lights
flashing, headed south for about 50 miles at speeds exceeding 100 mph until it ran out of
gas. All three suspects face a variety of charges.
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New
Hampshire
July 2004
Officers were called on three drunken teenage boys disturbing the neighborhood about 2:30
a.m. When police arrived, the teenagers took off on foot and police gave chase and
located them. One of the three was taken into custody without incident, but the
other two subjects yelled and fought with police during the entire ordeal. The
officers were finally able to get the other two subjects in the back seat of two different
patrol units. The 16-year-old kicked out the back window of one of the police
cruisers as he continued to swear at the police. Meanwhile, the 15-year-old kicked
the window in a second cruiser so hard, he bent its frame. One officer was injured.
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New
Jersey
July 2004
An officer stopped an adult subject riding a mini-motorcycle on the road about 1
a.m. The subject gave a false name, birth date, and attempting to flee on foot
during the contact. Officers fought with the subject and used pepper spray to gain
control. The subject had one hand in a cast and was unable to be handcuffed.
Police found crack cocaine in the subject's pocket and when placed in the back seat, used
his cast to bang on the plastic window of the metal cage inside the patrol car. The
subject also had outstanding warrants.
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Prevention - Step #1 & #3
Texas
July 2004
Officers arrested a man who was intoxicated and had driven his car into a ditch.
When officers attempted to arrest him, he tried to run away but stumbled and fell.
As police handcuffed him, he grabbed an officer's gun and tried to remove it from the
holster. After the man was put in the back seat of the police car, he began beating
his head against the rear seat barrier. Then the man tried to kick out the window and
officers used pepper spray.
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Prevention - Step #1
Canada
July 2004
An officer placed one of two men handcuffed in the back of the cruiser. The officer
then noticed the other man "sliding over into the driver's seat" of the car that
had been pulled over. When the officer went to intervene in the apparent getaway, he
was assaulted and the suspect sped off while the arrested subject kicked the window out of
the cruiser and took off.
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Prevention - Step #1
Texas
July 2004
Police arrested a naked man after he slapped and punched a convenience store customer then
assaulted a child and ripped clothes off a woman. Officers handcuffed the man and
placed him in a patrol car, but on the way to the jail, the man broke the window with his
handcuffed hands and escaped, cut and bleeding. Officers realized the man was trying
to escape and slowed to stop the patrol car as the man jumped out and attempted to flee on
foot.
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Prevention - Step #1
Texas
July 2004
An inmate being transferred between detention centers overpowered two guards, apparently
took a fellow prisoner hostage and sped away in the van that had been carrying them.
The incident began when a prisoner produced a firearm that had been smuggled in and took
the transport van and guard's guns leaving the two guards and eight other inmates along
the road. The escape also included another stole vehicle, a robbery, kidnapping of 3
more people, assault, and attempted carjacking. The prisoners were captured three
hours and all the hostages were unharmed.
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Prevention - Step #1
New
Jersey
July 2004
After being arrested for assault and threatening to kill a lady, the subject was being
transported to jail in the back seat of a patrol unit. During transport, the subject
became unruly and kicked out a window of the patrol unit. The subject was peppered
sprayed and taken back into control.
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Prevention - Step #1
Ohio
July 2004
After being detained for shoplifting, the lady fought with security, then with an officer,
and then was handcuffed and placed in a patrol unit. While en-route to jail, the
lady kicked out a window of the patrol unit. The lady was placed in another patrol
unit, and kicked a window out of the 2nd patrol unit also. One officer was injured
with glass during the ordeal.
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Prevention - Step #1
Georgia
July
2004
A suspect in an armed robbery was handcuffed behind his back and being transported to
headquarters when he was able to move his handcuffs from the back to the front of his body
twice. After arriving at headquarters, the suspect once again pulled his handcuffs
to the front and a scuffle ensued as the officers tried to cuff him again. During
the scuffle, the suspect was shot twice. The suspect broke free and tried to run,
but was chased down a short while later. He was taken to a hospital, where he was
treated.
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Prevention - Step #1
Maine
June
2004
A lady was arrested for parole violations. While being transported to jail, the lady
slipped out of the handcuffs. When the officer pulled the patrol unit over to the
side of the road, the lady attempted to exit the vehicle. The lady fought with the
officer and bit the officer, but was taken back into custody.
News
Link
Prevention - Step #1
North Carolina
June
2004
A mentally challenged woman died after she reportedly unbuckled her seatbelt, opened the
door, and jumped from a van that was taking her and three others back to a group
home.
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Prevention - Step #2
Louisiana
June 2004
A subject was arrested by officers for public drunkenness. The subject
was handcuffed and placed in the back seat of a police cruiser, where officers said he
became violent and kicked out a window. The subject was transported for processing and
started struggling with officers and fell, hitting the back of his head. The subject
later died.
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Prevention - Step #1
Texas
June 2004
An automatic rifle, a shotgun, and a handgun stolen from an officer's marked car.
The weapons were stolen from the officer's take-home car which was parked at his home.
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Prevention - Step #4
Kentucky
June 2004
Police detained two people after seeing marijuana growing in a
house. While investigators took evidence from the home, which included 74 marijuana
plants, both subjects fled, handcuffed, out the back door. The suspects were found
later and taken into custody.
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Link
Prevention - Step #3
Maryland
June 2004
A woman admitted to starting an apartment complex fire. When questioned further, the
woman became incoherent and was in the back seat of a police car. Moments later, an
officer noticed that the woman had a lighter and was attempting to set the patrol car's
back seat on fire. Police stopped the woman, handcuffed, and searched her.
Despite being handcuffed, she kicked the rear passenger window out of its track, causing
about $400 in damage.
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Prevention - Step #2
Canada
June 2004
Police handcuffed a subject behind his back and placed him in a patrol unit. When
the officer stepped out of the patrol unit to sign papers, the subject was able to slip
the handcuffs in front of his body and drive off. The patrol unit was found abandoned and
the subject was captured later.
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Prevention - Step #1
Texas
June 2004
Police arrested an man for assaulting an officer. While in the patrol car, the man
was able to free a hand from the handcuffs. When the officer opened the door to get
the man out at jail; the man pushed the officer and fled on foot. The man was caught
a short time later.
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Prevention - Step #1
Florida
June 2004
Police arrested a man for sleeping on a pier and drugs charges. The man was
seatbelted into the back seat of the police car, where the man unbuckled his seatbelt and
struck his head on the rear window. The man then kicked the window out with his feet
and caused some other unit damage.
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Prevention - Step #1
Illinois
June 2004
Police arrested a subject for DUI and found crack cocaine bagged for
distribution. The subject attempted to flee on foot, but was caught. Officers
handcuffed the subject behind his back and placed him in the back seat of a police
car. While the officers were searching the crime scene, the subject kicked out a
window of the police car causing $1,200 in damages.
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Link
Prevention - Step #1
Tennessee
June
2004
Officers arrested a subject who shot and killed a man. The subject was arrested by
being handcuffed behind his back and then placed in the back seat of a police car.
The officers went into the apartment to try to help the victim, and the subject kicked out
a police car window then escaped on foot. The subject was later caught.
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Prevention - Step #1
Iowa
June 2004
An officer arrested a man for speeding, handcuffed him, and placed the subject in the back
seat of the squad car. The subject managed to get in the front seat, put the car in
gear, and smash into a guardrail. The two men fought until backup arrived.
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Prevention - Step #1
Rhode
Island
June
2004
Police arrested a subject after a domestic disturbance which the subject was threatening
police with a sword. The subject was handcuffed and placed in the back seat of a
police unit and transported to jail. During transport, the subject started kicking
the back seat and prisoner partition. The man was able to make a gap in the
partition and then kicked the officer driving the police unit in the head. The
officer lost control for a short period of time but stopped and restrained the subject
again.
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Prevention - Step #1
Texas
June 2004
Police arrested a registered sex offender for misconduct with girls at a swimming pool and
an outstanding warrant. The subject was handcuffed and placed in a police
unit. While obtaining more information, the subject was able to get out of the
police unit and fled on foot. The subject was caught a short time later still
handcuffed.
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Prevention - Step #1
Florida
June 2004
Police arrested a man on drug charges, pushed an officer to the ground while handcuffed
and ran off. The man dropped drugs, but was caught after a short foot chase.
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Prevention - Step #3
Pennsylvania
June 2004
Police arrested a man after finding drug paraphernalia, stolen items, and knives in their
vehicle. After the man was taken into custody, he managed to get his handcuffs in
front of himself in the patrol car, reached out an open window of the car, opened the door
and escaped. The police officer caught the man was he attempted to flee on foot.
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Prevention - Step #1
Texas
June 2004
A deputy walked back to his patrol car to confirm the driver's identity during a traffic
stop, and the driver fled on foot. Deputies caught up with the subject and the
subject dropped to his knees and then struggled with the deputies as they attempted to
handcuff him. During the struggle, the subject went into cardiac arrest for an
unknown reason.
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Prevention - Step #3
Michigan
June 2004
Police handcuffed a suspect with his hands behind his back and placed him inside a patrol
car. The subject managed to move his hands to the front, and fought with the
officer. The subject was able to steal the patrol unit and attempted to elude
police.
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Prevention - Step #1
Texas
June 2004
Officers arrested a man who had an outstanding warrant and was also selling stolen tools
plus had a mobile meth lab in his vehicle. The man was handcuffed and placed in the
back seat of a police car. During a break while officers questioned the man, he was
able to kick out a window of the police car, crawl outside, and attempted to flee on
foot. The man was caught a short distance away.
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Prevention - Step #1
Washington
June 2004
A lady crashed in a stolen vehicle while attempting to elude police. After she
crashed, she attempted to flee on foot was captured and placed in the back seat of a
police unit. While the officers were investigating the crash, the lady attempted to
kick out a window of the police unit, but was stopped.
News
Link
Prevention - Step #1
Maryland
June 2004
A jury has awarded $39 million to a man whose neck was broken during his arrest by police
in 1997. A man was arrested after a traffic stop for speeding and drunk
driving, The man was placed in a police prisoner transport van and during transport,
stood up, then fell down striking his neck. The man is now a quadriplegic and the
police department is ordered to pay $559,334 to cover past medical expenses, $8.5 million
for future medical expenses, and $30 million in ``non-economic'' damages including pain
and suffering, embarrassment and humiliation.
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Prevention - Step #1
Texas
May 2004
An officer was giving a ride to a man who was seated in the passenger side back seat of
the patrol unit. While the officer was driving, the man crawled into the front seat
and attempted to grab the officer's gun while choking the officer. The men fought
over the gun and the officer discharged the gun with the subject fleeing on foot but was
caught.
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Prevention - Step #2
Michigan
May 2004
A subject was arrested for drinking and driving. The subject started kicking the
rear door and window of the patrol unit while en-route to jail. The deputy stopped
the unit and attempted to control the subject, but the subject started fighting with the
officer. The subject was able to escape the back seat of the unit and fled on foot,
but caught a short time later.
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Prevention - Step #1
Oregon
May 2004
A run away juvenile was taken into custody. The subject fought upon arrest and was
placed in the back seat of a police unit. The subject tried to kick open the patrol
car door, so he was put in leg restraints; on the way to the detention center, he slipped
out of the leg restraints and tried to kick out the Plexiglas divider between the back and
front seats.
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Prevention - Step #1
South
Carolina
May
2004
A man was arrested on a probation violation was handcuffed and placed in the back seat of
a patrol unit. While being transported, the deputy agreed to open the car window
because the man was feeling ill. When the deputy stopped at a stop sign, the man
crawled out the window and fled on foot.
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Prevention - Step #1
Pennsylvania
May 2004
An officer arrested a drunk man who set fire to his own house then attacked officers and
fire fighters. The man was ultimately handcuffed and placed in the back seat of a
police car. While in the police car, the man kicked out a window of the car.
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Prevention - Step #1
Pennsylvania
May 2004
A Constable was transporting a prisoner back to prison, when the prisoner started
excessively moving around in the back seat. A short distance away from prison, the
prisoner somehow removed his seatbelt and head-butted the Constable three times
then overtook and stole his vehicle. The prisoner pulled his hands free from a
handcuff “belly belt” and fought with the Constable over his pistol, but did not
get the gun. The prisoner pushed the Constable out of the vehicle and drove
off.
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Prevention - Step #1
Texas
May 2004
Officers stopped a vehicle involved in several motor-vehicle break-ins with the driver
running into a wooded area. One passenger was arrested and while officers were
arresting a second passenger, the first passenger fled on foot. The driver and
passenger one were arrested a short time later.
Prevention - Step #1
Rhode
Island
May
2004
Police were called to a loud party with underage drinking. A female suspect was
arrested during the ordeal and attempted to escape from the patrol unit by squeezing
around the security panel that separates the front and back seats, then jumped out the
front door. She was taken back into custody.
Prevention - Step #1
Pennsylvania
May 2004
Police responded to a one-car alcohol related crash in which the driver fled the
scene. The driver did come back and gave a fake name. Officers had driver sit
in patrol unit while the crash was investigated. As police approached the driver to arrest
him, he kicked the back window out of the cruiser and the door.
Prevention - Step #2
Florida
May 2004
Deputies arrested a burglary suspect. The suspect was handcuffed and placed in the
back seat of a patrol unit. While the deputies was investigating the scene, the
suspect kicked out a patrol unit window, crawled out, and attempted to flee on foot; but
was captured. The department was told the patrol unit had kick-proof windows.
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Prevention - Step #1
Massachusetts
May
2004
Officers arrested a man for traffic violations and resisting arrest. The man
resisted and was peppered sprayed, handcuffed, and placed in the back seat of a
police unit. The man then kicked out a police car window.
Prevention - Step #1
Arizona
May 2004
An officer took a run away, from a state center for troubled youths, into custody.
The youth was handcuffed and placed in the back seat of a police unit. After being
placed in the unit, the youth started kicking the police units windows in an attempt to
escape and to cause damage. A Taser was used to stop the youth.
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Prevention - Step #1
Oklahoma
May 2004
After officers arrested a man who had ran away from a vehicle with a gun. After
being handcuffed behind his back the officers attempted to located the gun the man had
thrown down. While the officers searched, the man again attempted to flee on foot;
but was captured again.
Prevention - Step #1
Georgia
May
2004
A woman was arrested after a domestic fight, handcuffed behind her back, and placed in the
back seat of a police car which was equipped with a prisoner transport partition.
While the officer was obtaining information, the woman was able to slip through the
prisoner shield sliding window getting into the front seat of the patrol car. The
lady managed to get her hands in front of her body and sped away in the patrol car.
The woman drove a short way crashing the unit and attempted to flee on foot, but captured.
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Prevention - Step #1
Maine
May 2004
A man was arrested on a probation violation after deputies were called to a fight. The man
was arrested and put into the cruiser for transport to jail. While en-route, the man
kicked out the rear window and tried to escape. Officers gained control of the man and
placed him back inside the police unit.
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Prevention - Step #1
Connecticut
May
2004
An officer was checking I.D. of a lady, and found the lady gave a false name. When
the officer tried to pat search her, she pulled down her pants and started yelling
in the street. The lady was arrested and placed in the back seat of the police car.
While in the back of the patrol car the lady tried to kick out a side window and had to be
pepper sprayed.
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Prevention - Step #1
Delaware
May 2004
Officers stopped a subject who was driving a stolen vehicle. The subject had an
outstanding warrant for murder and fled on foot after punching an officer. The
subject was caught, fought while being handcuffed placed in a police unit. The
subject kicked an officer while attempting to kick out a window of the police car in an
escape attempt.
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Prevention - Step #1
Pennsylvania
May 2004
Officers arrested a man and woman, both had been drinking, after the couple had been told
to leave the bar. The male subject was handcuffed and placed in the patrol
unit. The female became combative then handcuffed and her legs shackled before being
placed in a patrol car. The female kicked out a window of the patrol car and then
kicked an officer.
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Prevention - Step #1
Nevada
May 2004
Troopers arrested an intoxicated man, and placed him in nylon type cuffs in a patrol unit.
During an inventory of the man's vehicle, Trooper's noticed the man in the driver seat of
the patrol unit with the patrol unit coming towards the Troopers. The man was ordered to
stop which he did and was arrested again. The man was kicking and spitting while in
custody.
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Prevention - Step #1
Illinois
May 2004
Two brothers, one in handcuffs, fled during a traffic stop. The officer smelled
marihuana and handcuffed one subject. The officer had the other subject walk to the patrol
car, but that subject ran when he found out he was also going to be arrested. Both
subjects were taken back into custody a short time later.
Prevention - Step #1 and #3
Indiana
May 2004
A man was being taken back to jail after a court appearance, when he kicked out a car
window and jumped out. Police caught him minutes later, just before he stole another
vehicle which had knives inside it.
Prevention - Step #1
California
May 2004
A handcuffed subject in the back seat of a patrol unit escaped custody after kicking out a
patrol car window. The subject was arrested after
abusing his girlfriend and for an outstanding warrant. The officer was checking the
medical status of the girlfriend when the subject slipped the handcuffs in front of him,
kick out the side window, and escape.
Prevention - Step #1
Kentucky
May 2004
A subject in custody was being transported from the federal courthouse to jail when the
subject was able to remove his handcuffs and leg shackles with a key, kick out a
window, jumped from the van, break into a mobile home, but was caught trying to
steal a police car.
Prevention - Step #1
California
May 2004
A man stole a deputy's patrol unit while the deputy was obtaining information about a
"shots fired call". The man impersonated a deputy multiple times
conducting traffic stops and stealing wallets and money. The stolen patrol unit was
spotted and chased, but the man abandoned the unit and fled on foot. The man stole
the shotgun from the unit.
Prevention - Step #4
West Virginia
May 2004
After arresting a subject, he kicked out the back window of a
police car. The subject got out of the police care and ran down the interstate in
handcuffs, but caught a short time later.
Prevention -
Step #1
Utah
May 2004
During a "routine" traffic stop, offices had the 2 subjects from the vehicle sit
in the ditch while a search of the vehicle was done. During the search officers
found over $225,000.00 worth of cocaine and methamphetamines in the vehicle. When
officers found the drugs, the subjects fled on foot. One subject was caught the next
morning.
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Prevention - Step #3
Michigan
May 2004
Two men were arrested in connection with a home invasion. Officers had one man
handcuffed and in the back seat of a police unit, when he was able to somehow escape, but
later caught again with help from a Taser. The second man was caught by the border
and placed in the back seat of a different police car. The second man kicked out the
window of that police car before being taken to jail.
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Prevention - Step #1
Texas
May 2004
Officers arrested a man who was attempting to break into a school. The man was
handcuffed and placed in the back set of the police unit, but somehow was able to get out
and steal the police unit. The man crashed the police unit a short distance away and
attempted to flee on foot, but was caught hiding in a house.
Prevention - Step #1
Florida
May 2004
A man charged with murder escaped while handcuffed behind his back in the back seat of a
police unit. The man somehow was able to get his hands in front of his body, open
the door, and jumped out. The man fled on foot, stole a bicycle and fled on it, then
swan across a river, and was found hiding in a trailer still handcuffed. The man was
taken back into custody.
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Link
Prevention - Step #1
Washington
May 2004
A man suspect was arrested in connection with an investigation of a rape. The
suspect was being transported to the jail when he was able to slip out of the flex-cuffs,
open the car door, and flee on foot. Detectives caught the suspect after a short
foot chase.
Prevention - Step #1
Arkansas
May 2004
A Deputy arrested a subject for an outstanding warrant. The subject was handcuffed
and placed in the back seat of the patrol car. While the Deputy was doing an
inventory of the vehicle contents, the subject was able to get his hands in front of him,
get into the front seat of the patrol car, and drove away. The subject abandoned the
patrol car and stolen another vehicle a short distance away.
Prevention - Step #1
Ohio
May 2004
Officers arrested a man who was attempting to cash stolen checks. The man was
handcuffed and placed in the back seat of the police unit. While officers were
impounding the subject's vehicle, the subject was able to slip out of the handcuffs, crawl
out the back window, and steal the police unit. The subject stopped and gave up when
requested to do so by police, and was taken back into custody.
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Prevention - Step #1
Oklahoma
May 2004
A subject broke into an officer's patrol car and stole a shotgun, ammunition, a badge, and
citation book. Investigators want to know what kind of tool the crook used to get
the shotgun out of its secured rack in the patrol car.
Prevention - Step #4
Oklahoma
May 2004
An officer placed two intoxicated subjects in the backseat of the patrol unit who were
involved in a bar fight. While questioning a third subject, one of the two detained
subjects kicked out a side window of the patrol unit. The detained subjects escaped
on foot while the officer was injured in the ordeal.
Prevention - Step #1
South Carolina
May
2004
A Trooper arrived at the scene of a 3 vehicle car crash. While standing outside his
patrol unit, a lady involved in the car crash jumped into the patrol unit and sped
away. The lady sideswiped a mini-van, drove off the on-ramp flattening 2 tires, and
attempted to flee on foot but captured again.
Prevention - Step #3
Connecticut
April 2004
A man was arrested after turning in a illegal weapon he found. The man was
handcuffed and transported in the back seat of a patrol unit. The man claims
injuries during transport and referred questions to his lawyer.
Prevention - Step #1
Vermont
April 2004
Officers arrested 2 women and a man, and secured them in the
back seat of a police unit. While the police were obtaining information, another lady
opened the back door of the police car in an attempt to free the 3 suspects. All
were caught.
Prevention -
Step #1
Ohio
April 2004
A Trooper arrested a man driving
under the influence. The Trooper handcuffed the man and seatbelted the man in the
front seat of the patrol unit. While securing the man's vehicle, the man was able to
escape from the cruiser and flee on foot. The Trooper was unable to catch the man,
but the man was caught the next day.
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Prevention -
Step #1
Connecticut
April
2004
During a traffic stop, officers arrested a man who had a handgun, marihuana, and other
pills. The officers placed the man in the back seat of a police unit while searching
the man's vehicle. The man kicked out the cruiser's rear window and attempted to
escape, before being subdued.
Prevention - Step #1
North
Carolina
April 2004
A handcuffed and shackled man was being transported to a mental institution. The man
was able to kick out the back window of a deputy’s squad car, climbed out while the
car was still in motion, and escape on foot. The man later turned himself in.
Another man also being transported did not try to escape.
Prevention - Step #1
Colorado
April 2004
Two bondsmen who were attempting to revoke a man's bond and take him into custody for
sexual assault charges when the suspect assaulted the bondsmen. When police arrived
the suspect was handcuffed and placed in the backseat of a patrol unit. While the
officer was outside the patrol unit, obtaining additional information; the suspect was
able to slip out of the handcuffs, force down the bullet proof cage partition, climb into
the front seat of the patrol unit, and speed away. Officers pursued the suspect and
the suspect crashed the patrol unit into a deputy's unit, a fence, boulders, and curbs
before crashing into a field and being captured again.
Prevention - Step #1
Texas
April 2004
Officers arrested a man for public intoxication and placed him handcuffed in the back seat
of the patrol unit. The kicked
out the window, jump out of the car while it was moving, and escaped on foot. He was
found a short time later and arrested again.
Prevention - Step #1
Texas
April 2004
A subject that was being detained was able to get free, steal the patrol
car, abandon the car, and escaping on foot.
Prevention - Step #1
Ohio
April 2004
A deputy arrested a male subject for an outstanding
warrant. The subject was handcuffed his back and placed in the back seat of the
patrol unit while the deputy attempted to find a second subject which fled on foot.
The arrested subject opened the rear window, got out of the patrol unit, into the front
seat, and sped away. The patrol unit was found abandoned and the arrested subject
was captured later.
Prevention -
Step #1
Tennessee
April
2004
An officer was flagged down by a woman who said someone or something was
trying to get her, but the officer did not see anybody around. When the officers
went to investigate, the woman attacked the officer and attempted to steal the patrol
unit. The woman was arrested after a long fight and chemical spray.
Prevention - Step #3
Missouri
April 2004
Detectives arrested a man who had
possession of cocaine, marijuana, and a pistol. The detectives handcuffed the man
and placed him in the back seat of their car. As the detectives were doing further
investigation, the man was able to slip out of the handcuffs, get into the front seat, and
drive off. The vehicle was recovered and the man was caught a short time later.
Prevention - Step #1
Virginia
March
2004
Officers arrested a man and handcuffed him behind his back and placed him in
a patrol unit fitted with a cage separating the front and rear seats. While officers
were interviewing people at the scene, the man was able to maneuver his cuffed hands in
front of his body, crawled through a small window in the patrol unit's cage, and escape on
foot. Officers caught the man later who was still wearing one handcuff.
Prevention -
Step #1
Canada
March 2004
Officers arrested a female subject after being involved in destruction of private
property. The female was handcuffed behind her back and placed in the back seat of a
patrol unit equipped with a prisoner transport partition. While the officers
were obtaining more information at the scene of the incident, the female subject kicked
out a back side window of the patrol unit, crawled out the window, and escaped on foot
only to be caught again a short time later. The female also had 11 outstanding
warrants.
Prevention - Step #1
Virginia
March
2004
Officers spotted a subject who had 10 outstanding
warrants. After a short foot pursuit, officers caught the subject who did not resist
arrest any further and was placed in a transport van. When officers opened the van
after the two-mile drive, the subject was found on the floor unresponsive and unable to be
revived. Police think the subject committed suicide.
Prevention -
Step #1
Ohio
March 2004
Troopers caught a woman suspected of stealing a car, handcuffed
her, and seat belted her into the front passenger seat of the patrol unit. While the
Trooper was inventorying the vehicle, the woman was able to unbuckle the seatbelt, slip
the handcuffs under her feet and in front, get into the driver's seat and speed away only
to be found a few hours later.
Prevention -
Step #1
Florida
March 2004
Officers arrested a subject for possible car theft, handcuffed him, and placed him in the
back seat of the patrol unit. While officers talked to another subject, the arrested
subject somehow was able to escape the patrol unit and flee on foot.
Prevention - Step #1
Texas
March 2004
A subject that was handcuffed was being transferred to another police agency
when the subject somehow was able to get free of a handcuff, escape from the patrol car,
and flee on foot.
Prevention - Step #1
Kansas
February
2004
While parked at the deputy's residence, somebody broke in an unmarked patrol unit
and stole the unit plus a shotgun. The vehicle was recovered, but the gun is still
missing.
Prevention - Step
#4
Pennsylvania
February
2004
Officers arrested two suspects for breaking into a car. The suspects
were handcuffed and placed in the back of patrol units. While the officers were
getting more information, one of the suspects was able to crawl through the divider into
the front seat and speed away. The patrol unit was found and prisoner arrested a
short time later.
Prevention -
Step #1
Pennsylvania
February
2004
Officers arrested a man on drug and weapon charges. The man complained
about pain in his hands and knees and was taken to a hospital for treatment. Doctors
placed a soft cast on his leg and advised officers not to handcuff the man. When
officers pulled up to the station and opened the back of the van, the man fled on
foot. The man turned himself in later.
Prevention -
Step #1
Pennsylvania
February
2004
Two undercover officers arrested a female suspect for prostitution and placed
her in the backseat of an unmarked police van in handcuffs. As the two officers
walked to the front of the van, the suspect managed to get her handcuffed hands in front
of her and drive away with their vehicle. The van was recovered later.
Prevention -
Step #1
Florida
February 2004
Officers arrested a subject who was trespassing at a High School. The subject was
handcuffed and placed in a patrol unit. While the officers were obtaining more
information, the subject slipped from the handcuffs, kicked open the patrol unit door, and
fled on foot.
Prevention - Step #1
Ohio
February 2004
An officer arrested a subject for a traffic violation and no driver's license. The
subject was placed in the backseat of the patrol unit, but somehow escaped and pulled a
knife on the officer. The subject fled on foot but taken back into custody a short
time later.
Prevention - Step #1
North Carolina
February
2004
3 prisoners escaped from a highway work crew when the prisoner guard and 2 other prisoners
stepped out of the van. The prison guard left the keys in the van to listen to the
prison radio, when one of the prisoners got into the driver seat and drove off. They
were caught a short distance away and taken back into custody.
Prevention -
Step #1
Pennsylvania
February
2004
After a male suspect was arrested on drug charges, he escaped by jumping from
a patrol car and feeing on foot. The suspect had to be rescued after he ended up in
a tree over a river and was taken to a nearby hospital to be treated for hypothermia when
he escaped for a second time.
Prevention -
Step #1
Michigan
February 2004
Officers were checking a suspect's drivers identification through the computer in the
patrol unit, when the suspect walked to the patrol unit and shot a female officer.
The other officer requested assistance, and chased the suspect on foot before exchanging
gun fire and being shot. Both officers died.
Prevention - Step #3
Alabama
February
2004
A female suspect was arrest on drug charges. The suspect was handcuffed
behind her back and placed in the back seat of the patrol unit. When the officer
began to inventory the suspect's vehicle; the suspect got her hands in front of her,
climbed through the patrol car screen into the driver seat, and sped away. The
suspect was re-captured after she crashed the patrol unit into another vehicle, but kept
driving until she pulled over a short time later.
Prevention -
Step #1
Texas
January 2004
A deputy was checking an unattended vehicle with drugs in the seat.
While the deputy was investigating the vehicle, the vehicle owner arrived and was
handcuffed and placed in the patrol unit. A family member of the arrested subject
distracted the deputy and the subject was able to escape on foot.
Prevention - Step #1
Oregon
January
2004
A jail inmate doing time for auto theft jumped from a truck carrying a prisoner work crew
through a neighborhood. The inmate threw open the door, did a barrel roll out, and
took off. The inmate was caught a short time later.
Prevention - Step #1
Florida
January 2004
Officers placed a man in protective custody after the man complained he was a danger to
himself and others. The man was handcuffed behind his back, leg shackles in place,
and restrained in the back seat of the patrol unit. The man was able to roll the
window down and crawl out.
Prevention - Step #1
Oklahoma
January 2004
Officers arrested a subject and placed him, handcuffed behind his back in the back seat of
the patrol unit. While the officer was dealing with others in the vehicle, the
prisoner somehow opened back door and fled on foot.
Prevention - Step #1
Georgia
January
2004
Officers on an auto theft task force stopped a subject for a traffic violation.
The subject had bulky clothes on; was pat searched and placed in the back seat of a patrol
unit. While in the patrol unit, the subject produced a small handgun and shot one of
the officers. The other officer returned fire killing the subject. The wounded
officer is recovering.
Prevention - Step #2
Ohio
January 2004
Officers questioned a man after a burglary in the area. Officers pat
searched the suspect and placed him in the back seat of a patrol unit. Unknown to
the officers, the suspect had a small handgun hidden. When the officers went to get
the suspect, the suspect shot both officers and stole a patrol unit. Other officers
chased the stolen patrol unit until the suspect crashed. The suspect then pointed a
gun at an officer and that officer shot the suspect twice. The wounded officers are
recovering.
Prevention -
Step #2
Utah
January 2004
A Trooper arrested a lady for an outstanding warrant. The
lady was handcuffed behind her back and seatbelted in the front passenger seat of
the patrol car. The Trooper was dealing with another person in the vehicle, when the
prisoner managed to slip the handcuffs in front of her and jumped into the driver's seat
of the patrol car and speed away striking the Trooper. The patrol car was stopped
later with spike strips and prisoner arrested again. The Trooper was treated and
released.
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Prevention - Step #1
Preventative
Steps
With Trooper Trap installed,
prevention is 1 switch away.
Follow these easy steps to assist in preventing an escape.
| Step #1 |
Handcuffed
suspect in patrol or transport unit, seatbelt in place and
activate alarm. |
| Step #2 |
Subject seated
in patrol or transport unit, have subject put seatbelt on in
case a vehicle strikes patrol unit while stopped and activate alarm.
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| Step #3 |
Subject
standing or sitting outside the patrol or transport unit,
have subject sit in patrol unit so subject does not get hit by a vehicle, then complete
with Step #2. |
| Step #4 |
Use Trooper Trap - Weapon Alarm. Leave armed, disarm before removing weapon. If
the weapon is removed when armed, an alarm will sound. |
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