I came in contact with a solo male driver. I asked him if he was with the
white SUV. He told me he was. He advised me that they slowed down. I asked if he had a license or ID. He said, “Look at this.
It’s a mess.” as he pointed back to everything in the backseat. He told me those were his friends in the white SUV. He said he
was taking this car with them. I told him to step out so I could get his name. I had him come back to my passenger side window.
I asked him whose car it was, and he told me his brothers’. I asked who was in the car in front of him and he said “My brothers
uh. It’s uh my sister-in-law.” He told me he was following her to Tennessee. He told me he was coming from Dallas. I identified
him as Eliezer Valladares Reyes DOB: 09/27/1994. He told me he had a license or ID out of Tennessee. After more
conversation, he told me that was his sister-in-law and that she “bailed on him”. I said, “She didn’t want to stop?” He replied,
“Yeah she knows.” I could not get a return on ACIC on the name that he gave me, so I proceeded to use my fingerprint scanner
to get his fingerprints.
I asked him what part of Tennessee and he couldn’t remember. He finally said Nashville. He proceeded
to tell me he lives “everywhere”. He told me he didn’t understand why I stopped him and not her. He then proceeds to tell me “I
thought it might be because of my appearance.” I told him I couldn’t even see him when he came by. He told me he had a
permit out of Michigan. I was able to finally get a return on ACIC out of Michigan. I asked if they were going up for the day and
coming back. He told me “Visiting family then coming back.” I was able to see that he did not have a valid driver’s license. He
told me that it wasn’t major. He asked if I could just let him leave it at the gas station and call her. He told me it was going to
“cost him money”, but it was his brothers’ car. I advised Troop G dispatch to call the next wrecker on our rotation list. I asked
him if there was anything illegal. I asked if there was any marijuana and he just looked down at the ground. I asked him how
much weed he had. He told me he didn’t have any weed. I asked if he had some meth or cocaine. He just kept looking at the
ground and wouldn’t look at me. I asked how much and if it was a couple of pounds. I had to tell him to look at me because he
kept staring at the ground. He told me he didn’t have any weed. I asked how much meth he had. He told me he didn’t have
pounds but a couple of ounces of meth. He told me he didn’t know about weight. He told me there were two little bags. I told
him that those would be grams. He said they were in a coat. He admitted there was also a pipe. I asked if there was anything
else and he said that was it. He kept looking down and I told him to be honest if he had something else. He told me “I’m sorry.” I
asked, “What else you got? You couple of pounds of anything or what?” At that time, he bolted from my passenger window
back to the driver’s seat of his car. I was able to get to his window as he shut his door trying to put the car in drive. I told him to
stop multiple times. I deployed my taser twice and it had no effect on him. He began to take off and flee eastbound towards
Hope.
I advised Troop G dispatch at 10:29 a.m. that he took off and that I was in pursuit. I advised TFC. Antonio May to get spike
strips ready because I knew he was working around the 39 milepost. The Accord reached speeds up to 127 miles per hour and
started passing vehicles on the shoulder. He took exit 31 at a high rate of speed and went airborne before wrecking out into a
tree on the south side of the eastbound entrance ramp. He got out of the car from the right rear door and jumped over the fence
at the wood line and began to flee on foot. I pursued him on foot through the heavily wooded area. I found his red hoodie laying
on the ground. I was able to see him a good distance away with what appeared to be a bloody mouth and a black shirt on. The
last place I saw him was running into a wooded thicket. After approximately 2 hours of searching through the woods, we were
unable to locate him.
The vehicle was towed by Reese’s wrecker and secured in his shop until I could arrive. I was able to locate two small, clear
plastic bags of meth and a meth pipe in the center console below the radio. There were a lot of miscellaneous clothes and equipment inside the car. We were not able to locate anything else illegal inside the vehicle.
