SAN ANGELO, TX — A couple riding a high performance motorcycle led multiple law enforcement agencies on a high-speed chase through three west Texas counties before they were captured in San Angelo.
The chase began inside the City of Coleman. The Coleman Police Department pursued the two riding on the motorcycle south on TX 206, to U.S. 67 south. In Runnels County, the sheriff’s deputies there joined. Texas DPS pulled in on the chase somewhere near there as well.
DPS Trooper Blanco, who joined the chase on U.S. 67 between Ballinger and San Angelo, said she was seeing speeds as high as 107 mph.
The male driver of the motorcycle steered the bike eastbound onto the Houston Harte Expressway. From the county line, Tom Green County Sheriff’s Deputies had joined the pursuit as well. The motorcycle exited at Main St. and headed northbound. Blanco said in town on the city streets, the speeds were high, but generally in the 40 mph range.
The chase wandered east on 25th St. and then south on Bryant. Down Bryant they went, turning west on the Houston Harte Expressway frontage road (7th St.). From there, the chase turned northbound on Van Buren onward to 29th St. Then eastbound on 29th to MLK where they headed south.
The Sheriff’s Deputies called off the chase when they lost sight, somewhere around MLK.
Just as everyone was about to give up on finding the motorcycle and its two riders, DPS piped up on the radio. “He crashed out over here by Kiser Carpet,” they reported.
Then a foot pursuit ensued.
The two fugitives, a male and a female, both in their 20s or early 30s, hoofed it from the empty but semi-wooded field east of Kiser Carpet where they laid down the bike, slightly hidden in some brush, before running towards Mercedes and Glenna St.
During the foot pursuit, a State Policeman from San Angelo State Park joined the foot chase and caught both near the Beacon Missionary Baptist Church, 3822 Mercedes St. In all, the foot chase went on for about three-fourths of a mile.
Blanco said both were arrested and charged by the DPS with evading arrest in a vehicle and on foot. She said the Coleman Police Department is the lead agency and should report why the two were running from the law in the first place.
WATCH - the crash scene of the motorcycle (Bonnie and Clyde likely laid the bike over, apparently with the ignition still on, along with the headlights):
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San Angelo police supervisor Sgt. Antoine Callum said the SAPD did not get involved in the chase, but tried to get ahead of the fugitives and block intersections for safety.
We called the Coleman police and they notified Police Chief Anthony Smith that we were seeking a statement on the circumstances of the origination of the chase.
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Your reporting on this "notorious" couple wanders about as much as the actual chase. Referring to these two as Bonnie and Clyde is a disservice to the legendary couple. Where is the stolen money, or the trail of destruction and dead bodies? It's one thing to write conversationally, it's another to sound like an uneducated redneck.
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PermalinkAnnnnnd here we go. Another dumb guy that just has to make an idiotic comment about the write-up. Can't just read the piece and take it as informative can you? The term "Bonnie and Clyde" was used simply because it was a man and woman...and they led the cops on a chase through different counties. It doesn't have to include stolen money, or a trail of destruction and dead bodies. There's always a moron that has to make a negative out of everything these days. Seriously, get a life and move on.
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PermalinkJustin sounds like he is on the SALive payroll. If that is the case, great but I would just like to be able to read the news, legibly. I don't need any "clever" references of an actual notorious couple compared to a couple of punks that put our folks in blue in a bad situation.
When you described your explanation of the "Bonnie and Clyde" reference, (not "term") you shared more information of said reference than the actual writer.
All I'm saying is, quit sensationalizing a couple of punks for the sake of being clever, we already know the Live coverage is better than the Times.
Oh and by the way, see how I got through this rant without calling anyone dumb?
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PermalinkI can only parse through about every other word of this commenter's heavy (Canadian?) dialect, which, though considered to be a related idiom to that most commonly used in the States, is nonetheless quite alien in many respects.
He expresses displeasure at the irreverent references to a "Bonnie and Clyde," who appear to be revered figures where he comes from. This will be quite clear to even to thise with a cursory familiarity with the standard (if unofficially so) American vernacular, and he references a term which translates to something like a "Blue Man Group," also using a term describing a particular genre of music which Wikipedia describes as consisting of "short or fast-paced songs, with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics."
Judging from the overall content and tone of the commenter's composition, I think he's wishing the area a good harvest, healthy livestock, many soft rains, and perhaps even a joyous Easter.
If you can understand this, we also wish you well, friend, whoever, or wherever, you are.
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PermalinkI agree with Martin. The article titles are not worded very well and sound idiotic! And Rita all your big words are very impressive!
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PermalinkWell, Sheylan, you may be asking yourself how I, as the resident idiot moron manage to write such stupid posts commanding the lexicon that I do. Let me tell you, I don't just huff diesel and let autopredict write my posts for me. I partake of public television—not just to expand my vocabulary, but also my horizons. I partake of it while vigorously huffing diesel* and spamming autopredicted posts into the internet.
Thanks for the compliment.
(*This post is intended as humor. I do not huff diesel. If you are, or know of, an individual with a dangerous addiction, please speak to them and try to get them help. Like seriously.)
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