FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - An officer has been transported to the hospital after a brief chase through the streets of Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale Police officers in unmarked vehicles followed a vehicle suspected of being involved in a carjacking along West Broward Boulevard just after 10:15 a.m., Wednesday.
Police officers saw a black 2012 Jaguar near Broward Boulevard, a car they said was involved in a carjacking robbery.
They began to tail the car, which went on Interstate 95 going northbound to Atlantic Boulevard. The chase picked up when the car took the exit.
“When they be chasing like that, the police got to stop, man, ’cause they’re putting other people in danger,” witness Lewis Mohorn said, “and then they need to go and make a law for that. Like, not the chasing, you feel what I’m saying? I can see you chasing them in the air, but you can’t be chasing with no car with everybody else, because look what happens.”
The Jag took off through the streets of Pompano Beach.
“I just see them runnin’, going fast, runnin’ for their lives, and I didn’t know what was goin’ on,” Mohorn said. “I got so scared and frightened. It was crazy, though.”
The police cruiser crashed into a car while in pursuit of the Jag on Northwest 31st Avenue and Sixth Street and ended up on a driveway.
The Jag ended up crashing a few blocks away, and police arrested two people inside of that car.
“He hit the curb, and then he ran into them cars,” witness Zfery Clark said. “He dropped back, and he pulled in behind me, and they came back, and they got him.”
“It made me mad because how do you not see this yard right here?” said John Moore whose car was damaged in the chase. “You just errr! Boom! Ran into the yard. Now it’s three cars damaged.”
The police officer is being treated at Broward Health North with injuries that were not life-threatening.
The two suspects are being held in Broward county jail.
The innocent driver is also being treated at the hospital, but there’s no confirmation of that information.
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