Cops chase Dodge Charger at speeds over 130 mph while smoking

Being a police officer is not easy. What or who will face what on a daily basis and how things might turn out. For one Virginia trooper, that meant leaving cigars in the middle of a carriage to ensure they caught the suspect. This may not seem like a big deal, but the officer’s behavior throughout Shebang really stood out.

This incident appears to be from May 2024. In dashboard video from a Virginia State Patrol car, we see an officer casually enjoying a cigar while driving at highway speeds. As they approached the Dodge Charger in the left lane, they activated their emergency lights to initiate a traffic stop. Later, we would hear him say that he decided to do this because the suspect was traveling at more than 90 mph (144 km/h) in a 50 mph (80 km/h) zone.

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Within minutes, the officer and the Charger were traveling at 120 (193 km/h) to 130 mph (209 km/h) in what officials said was traffic. These same speeds continued throughout most of the chase. On top of that, there’s a lot of traffic on almost every highway these two drivers cover. So both were in and out of the car the entire time. For a moment, it even seemed like the fleeing Charger might have escaped.

They had a big gap in officers but didn’t maintain it. At one point, they tried another trick and stopped the chase altogether. We’ve seen this work in the past, as some police cars may struggle to keep up with what amounts to an old-school drag racing effort. Here, though, it doesn’t pay dividends.

Officers never ignore a suspect, and the Dodge driver gives up when other units arrive to help. In other states like Georgia or Arkansas, it’s commonplace for officers to use their cars as crash weapons to stop a suspect when they finally catch up – but that’s not the case here.

In fact, the Virginia officer didn’t even touch Dodge. When they went out to draw the gun, they communicated effectively with the suspect, who obeyed commands to exit the vehicle. Although the adrenaline must flow in moments like this, the troopers carefully extracted the suspect and calmly arrested him. He now faces several felony charges stemming from the high-speed chase, according to the video description.

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