16-year-old arrested outside St. Petersburg CVS after chase in stolen car
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St. Petersburg, FL - A 16-year-old was arrested outside of a CVS store in St. Petersburg after deputies said he led them on a chase in a stolen car.
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said its deputies spotted the stolen vehicle heading eastbound on Ulmerton Road around 6 p.m. on Sept. 17.
Video shows the driver turning into a shopping center off Park Boulevard and 49th Street, where a deputy approached from the opposite direction.
The driver took off, weaving through parking spaces before unloading a passenger in a CVS parking lot, according to PCSO.
“The vehicle then made for the far side of the lot, but a deputy blocked the exit while the deputy who had been tailing it closed in from behind,” PCSO said. “There was nowhere left to go.”
Body camera video shows the 16-year-old driver running from officers on a sidewalk along Park Boulevard. The sheriff’s office said a deputy deployed a Taser and arrested him.
He was charged with grand theft of a motor vehicle, fleeing to elude, resisting arrest without violence and no valid driver’s license.
PCSO said the teenager originally claimed the car belonged to his grandmother, but it “wasn’t long before the truth came out.”