SEAT BELT VIOLATION LEADS OCPD TO RECOVERED STOLEN VEHICLE AND WANTED FUGITIVE

On July 28, 2012, at about 6:30 a.m., Ocean City Police Officers  attempted to pull over a 2007 four-door Dodge Magnum with Texas registration in the 10 block area of 3^rd Street near the boardwalk. 
The vehicle fled police by going up the boardwalk and heading north.   Numerous citizens who were on the boardwalk had to get out of the path of vehicle to avoid being struck.  Officers not wanting to pursue the vehicle on the boardwalk, maintained a line-of-sight on the vehicle as it travelled north on the boardwalk.  Police travelled up the boardwalk in a marked police vehicle several blocks behind the fleeing car.  The suspect vehicle turned off the boardwalk at Surf Avenue, slowed down and three occupants of the vehicle bailed out of the car between the boardwalk and Baltimore Avenue. The police were able to detain the three passengers who bailed out of the fleeing vehicle. 

Officers continued to follow the vehicle off the boardwalk, however, lost sight of it as it fled north on Baltimore Ave.   A description of the suspect vehicle was broadcast over the police radio, at which time another marked OCPD patrol unit spotted the vehicle on Baltimore Ave., in the area of 16^th Street.   The marked patrol unit attempted to stop the vehicle and pulled behind the car. The suspect vehicle again attempted to flee from police and went up on the boardwalk for the second time at 16^th Street, and got off the boardwalk at 17^th Street. 


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