After San Diego police abandoned two attempts to catch him over safety fears, a pickup driver police accuse of reckless driving rolled onto a popular beach Sunday morning and aimed the truck toward the water.
The department’s helicopter was overhead when the Nissan Frontier reached the sand, allowing officers to track it before closing in.
Video from the beach shows 25-year-old Griffin Charles Foy outside the pickup with his hands raised as officers detained him in front of stunned onlookers.
Foy was booked into San Diego Central Jail on allegations of felony evading a peace officer with wanton disregard for safety, obstructing or resisting a peace officer and driving under the influence of drugs.
Police said the arrest ended without anyone being injured. A police K-9 was at the beach but was not used.
The confrontation came after a morning of complaints from the Pacific Beach neighborhood.
Shortly before 7:30 a.m., callers told the San Diego Police Department that a man in a Frontier was spinning donuts in parking lots, nearly striking other vehicles and possibly hitting curbs and a retaining wall.
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Officers arrived within minutes and saw the truck traveling west toward the ocean. When an officer tried to stop it, police say the driver took off.
The department ended that first chase after deciding the driver’s conduct had become too dangerous. Officers spotted the Nissan again later, but the driver allegedly ignored another attempted stop, leading police to end a second chase as well.
With the pickup wanted in connection with felony evading, police put more officers in the area to search for it. When the truck reappeared moving slowly, officers waited for the helicopter to take over the tracking before making another move.
That decision led the chase to the beach, where Foy was detained during what police characterized as a high-risk vehicle stop because of the alleged driving conduct.
In Maryland, body-camera video captured a separate confrontation involving a woman police say struck an officer, two patrol cars and another vehicle before officers opened fire.
The May 7 incident began with Anne Arundel County police responding around 9 p.m. to a hit-and-run report near North Crain Highway and 11th Avenue in Glen Burnie.
Police learned that a woman had crashed into another vehicle and then forcibly taken a family member’s car after the relative arrived to help her.
Officers later located Jasmin L. Cooper, 28, inside the vehicle on the 8500 block of Severn. Video shows them pointing guns at the car and yelling for her to turn it off and get out.
“Turn the car off,” officers can be heard ordering.
Cooper raised her hands from the steering wheel at one point but did not leave the vehicle, the video shows. An officer was heard asking, “So what, she stole her son’s car?”
Moments later, Cooper pulled from the parking space and drove away as officers rushed aside. Police say she then drove in the direction of the officers, hitting one of them along with two police vehicles and another car.
Officers fired their weapons, striking Cooper. She continued driving until other responding officers saw her turn onto Reece Road, police said.
Her vehicle crashed again near Reece Road and Telegraph Road. Police say Cooper then tried to enter another occupied vehicle before officers arrested her.
Video later shows Cooper on the ground in handcuffs while officers bandage her wound. She and the officer struck by the vehicle received treatment for injuries that were not life-threatening.
Cooper was charged with carjacking, attempted carjacking, multiple counts of reckless endangerment, first- and second-degree assault and related charges.
In Philadelphia, Julia MacDonald woke up Saturday to find the Honda she had packed for a move to Florida had disappeared from the street outside her South Philadelphia home.
The 33-year-old had loaded nearly all of her belongings into the car before the theft. NBC 10 reported that surveillance footage showed a group breaking into the Honda around 4 a.m. and driving away.
“My whole world has been flipped upside down,” MacDonald told ABC 6. “Now, I’m carless and we’re staying in an Airbnb. This has cost me thousands of dollars.”
MacDonald used the location connected to her AirPods to find some of her possessions on Mollbore Terrace.
Security footage showed thieves arriving there and leaving her belongings on the street, NBC 10 reported.
Neighbors helped her recover some items, though many had been searched through and discarded. Police eventually located the Honda, but MacDonald told the outlet it was no longer drivable.
She and her father are staying in an Airbnb while waiting for insurance to be resolved. MacDonald filed a police report and asked anyone with information about the missing property to come forward.
