{"id":270331,"date":"2026-05-14T02:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/270331\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T02:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T02:48:08","slug":"police-chase-in-miami-dade-involving-kidnapping-investigation-ends-with-crash-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/270331\/","title":{"rendered":"Police chase in Miami-Dade involving kidnapping investigation ends with crash, injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A fast-moving police chase through a residential neighborhood ended with a suspect\u2019s truck overturned and its windshield smashed out on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cYou could hear the car screeching, you could hear the chase &#8212; you could hear the signs and then you heard something that sounded like crash, crash, crash,\u201d one woman who witnessed the pursuit said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said the driver of the red Dodge pickup truck was wanted in connection to a kidnapping investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said the victim was inside the truck during the pursuit, which involved the Florida Highway Patrol and the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cA real live chase man, I seen all type of cars flying back and forth and the helicopter and he ran and chased the big red truck,\u201d witness James Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The chase came to an abrupt end near Northwest 86th Street and 18th Avenue when an FHP trooper performed a PIT maneuver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies and troopers were then able to take the suspect into custody and safely recover the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Two people were injured during the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">One of the injured individuals was seen on a stretcher before being rushed to the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. It remains unclear how that person was connected to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After several hours of investigating, a tow truck arrived to flip the overturned truck upright and haul it away, ending what neighbors described as a chaotic night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThey were up and down 87th and up and down 18th,\u201d another witness said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThey had all type of police behind him, behind him, I don\u2019t know what he did though but man that was crazy,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cMy heart beating fast as hell right now. I ain\u2019t never seen nothing like this man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A fast-moving police chase through a residential neighborhood ended with a suspect\u2019s truck overturned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-270331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}