The Municipal Police of Madrid arrested last Saturday, after 30 kilometers of police pursuit, a driver who tested positive for cocaine and who during that escape ran over several patrol cars, resulting in some officers being slightly injured, the Police Force reported this Monday in a release.
It all started at 6 p.m. when agents from the Special Services Police Station were on the M-30 interior carriageway 1 at the exit to the A-4 signaling, together with the M-30 signaling vehicle, because there was a broken down vehicle.
The police officers noticed that a car was approaching their area at high speed without slowing down and driving abnormally. The car had obvious damage from having suffered an accident, with partial loss of the bumper, no license plate and both fins with impacts, such as in the rear.
The agents proceeded to stop him, ignoring them and accelerating towards them, having to jump to get out of the way and avoid being run over. At kilometer 12,500 of the A-4, they again ordered the driver to stop driving, once again ignoring him and trying on several occasions to hit the police vehicle.
Next, the pursued driver entered a gas station at high speed and through several streets in an industrial estate in the municipality of Getafe, stopping and accelerating, sometimes driving in the opposite direction and causing cars, pedestrians and cyclists to retreat to his side. step not to be run over.
At a certain moment, the criminal accelerated strongly and hit his vehicle against a patrol car on its right side, causing serious damage to it. After this event, the aggressive driver began traveling along the A-4 in the opposite direction, making at a specific moment a change of direction to join the traffic flow.
The agents requested collaboration from the Civil Guard to have traffic controlled and thus be able to stop the vehicle. Another Madrid Municipal Police patrol joined the chase, blocking the way for the pursued and encapsulating him, while he continued ramming the police cars.
Finally, they managed to stop him at kilometer 20 of the Andalusia highway, already in Pinto. The driver was very aggressive, punching the officers and resisting very actively, having to be pulled out of the car window.
The Air Support Section collaborated in the arrest at the place of arrest, providing security to the area and then carrying out a planimetry to incorporate it into the proceedings of the Judicial Traffic Police Station.
Likewise, they tested him for alcohol and drugs, testing positive for cocaine. Summa-112 paramedics went to the scene and arrested this individual and the two slightly injured agents. He was transferred first to the 12 de Octubre hospital in Madrid and then to the National Police Corps of the San Blas district for his subsequent judicial custody.
