MIAMI (WSVN) - A man has been taken into custody following a police pursuit of a stolen vehicle that ended in Miami.
The pursuit concluded along Northeast 10th Avenue and 80th Street after a black van crashed into a Mercedes-Benz, Wednesday.
Police said the van was spotted along Interstate 95 at Northwest 119th Street before the driver exited the highway at that exit and drove through multiple surface streets on his way to Biscayne Boulevard.
Investigators added that he was speeding southbound on Biscayne Boulevard with multiple police cruisers behind him, and the vehicle drove the wrong way on several streets.
Cellphone video from a homeowner who lives near Northeast 79th Street captured the black van driving through the back of a shopping center in an attempt to evade police. A pursuing unmarked police vehicle also came close to crashing into a pickup truck.
Police said the van the suspect was driving was allegedly stolen from Miami Beach.
Quentin Renck, the driver of the Mercedes-Benz, described what occurred in the moments leading up to the pursuit’s conclusion. Outside of a foot injury, he was OK following the collision.
“There was apparently like a pursuit, driving after a guy that was running away in a minivan,” Renck said. “I was just driving normally down here, and the guy just hit me on the right side of my car. I was going southbound, and he was coming eastbound, and my car ended up backwards looking this way, so my airbag deployed and whatever. I didn’t see him coming. He must have been driving like 90 mph, maybe 100 mph. He had like 20 cop cars behind him, so I’m not quite sure what happened.”
Drone footage showed that the van nearly collided with a home in the area following the crash. The homeowner said he is happy the van did not plow through his residence.
The black van has since been towed away from the scene.
Miami Beach Police are handling the stolen car portion of the incident.
Miami-Dade Police are investigating the assault on a police officer charge the man is facing because, they said, he resisted arrest.
The suspect’s name and the charges he faces have not been released as of Wednesday night.
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