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Published on: 8/15/2001
Last Visited: 5/22/2002
After confiscating drug paraphernalia and seeing that the driver appeared drunk, Garason ordered him out of the car, said Manteo Police Chief Francis T. D'Ambra Jr.The suspect told the officer that the driver's door didn't work.Garason then told him to get out on the passenger side.After starting to comply, the suspect slammed the door, jumped back behind the driver's seat and sped off, D'Ambra said.
The car, at speeds of 60 to 70 mph, ran a red light at Sir Walter Raleigh Street, the chief said.As Garason headed through the intersection at about 50 mph, he clipped the rear bumper of another vehicle, causing minor damage to both vehicles and flattening his police car's rear tire.No one was injured.
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Phillip Etheridge continued the pursuit as the suspect turned toward Wanchese on N.C. 345, reaching speeds of 80 mph, D'Ambra said.
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D'Ambra said the suspect pulled off the road and ran about 25 feet from the car before Etheridge wrestled him to the ground.
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"We were very blessed for it not to be worse," D'Ambra said."But that young man put a lot of people's lives in danger . . . including his own."