Drivers who flee the police use all manner of different tactics. Some prove to be successful and inventive while many end up being dangerous and ineffective. In the case of a person allegedly driving a stolen Dodge Charger Scat Pack, the tactic used was perhaps one of the least effective possible.
Most who attempt to evade police choose to try and outrun authorities, which most times doesn’t go well. But the few who succeed in temporarily outrunning the law, usually drive high-powered vehicles like the Dodge in this story. The Scat Pack trim features a 485 hp Hemi V8 which is more than enough to leave police in dust given the right circumstances.
At times, those fleeing the police will also slow down and then accelerate away to make the gap bigger more quickly. In this case, the driver slows down, turns around, and ends up getting shoved into a ditch when it appears that he’s willing to ram the police car to get away. For a few moments, he appears to try to escape the ditch but it’s to no avail.
The description of the video purports to be the police report and says that following the driver’s arrest, the Arkansas State Police officer Ethan Carlton found a stolen Taurus .45 caliber firearm, “approximately 8 oz of suspected Marijuana, 8 oz of Promethazine, digital scales, plastic baggies, multiple different key fobs to multiple makes of vehicles, and a device to reprogramming vehicles.”
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It claims that the driver ended up in the Faulkner County Detention Center. His passenger was released from the scene without further detention. It’s not every day that the owner of a stolen vehicle gets it back in mostly undamaged condition, especially when it’s involved in a police chase, so this owner is pretty lucky, to say the least.