Dallas Police Department released footage of a chase that resulted in an arrest and multiple charge
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Dallas, TX - The department released the information along with video from the helicopter involved in the pursuit in a Thursday afternoon social media post.
According to the post, the incident began when officers assigned to the Project Safe Neighborhood Task Force located a vehicle that was reported stolen in an armed carjacking a day earlier.
According to the post, officers called for additional units and AIR-1 to maintain visual contact with the vehicle before attempting at traffic stop in the 12300 block of Greenville Ave.
As officers approached and ordered the driver to exit the vehicle, the car took off, and officers immediately started to pursue it. With AIR-1 overhead, the suspect drove the wrong way down Greenville Ave., and officers chased the driver onto I-635 with the suspect's speed allegedly approaching 120 miles per hour.
The suspect then exited the freeway at Jupiter Rd. and continued to speed through residential areas. Because the helicopter was tracking the suspect, officers were able to safely navigate those surface streets and follow the suspect back onto I-635.
Officers pursued the suspect through a construction zone until he exited on Town East Blvd. and headed into Mesquite, driving into oncoming traffic into the 2000 block of Town East Blvd.
With traffic building ahead, the suspect attempted to drive over the median when his vehicle became disabled. Dallas and Mesquite police officers, with help from deputies from the Dallas Sheriff's Office, took the suspect, later identified as 46-year-old Alfredo Hernandez, into custody.
Hernandez was charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle; evading arrest or detention with a vehicle; manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance; and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.