{"id":646178,"date":"2026-05-16T06:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/646178\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T06:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:01:10","slug":"he-was-all-over-the-place-longview-police-say-friday-chase-lasted-a-good-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/646178\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He was all over the place\u2019: Longview police say Friday chase lasted \u2018a good while\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018He was all over the place\u2019: Longview police say Friday chase lasted \u2018a good while\u2019<\/p>\n

Published 10:48 pm Friday, May 15, 2026<\/p>\n

A police pursuit that ended in a store parking lot Friday in Longview involved numerous law enforcement officers and spanned large swaths of North Longview, police said.<\/p>\n

Officers took a man into custody following the pursuit, but he has not yet been identified.<\/p>\n

The incident began after 10 a.m. when law enforcement learned that an oilfield work truck had been stolen in Louisiana and was in the area, said police spokesman LaDarian Brown. Officers began searching for the vehicle and then received a call about a reckless driver. Law enforcement officials said they learned that the driver might have been intoxicated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat [call] kind of helped us pinpoint where he was,\u201d Brown said. \u201cOnce we found the reckless driver, we realized it was the stolen vehicle.\u201d
Deputies with the Gregg County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Longview police officers pursued the driver as he traveled on Judson Road, Eastman Road, Fourth Street, U.S. 80, Hawkins Parkway and Hollybrook Drive.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was all over the place,\u201d Brown said. \u201cIt was a crazy one.\u201d<\/p>\n

At some point, Longview police called off their chase, and Gregg County deputies took over, Brown said. Texas Department of Public Safety troopers joined in the pursuit, and a trooper performed a tactical vehicle intervention on the truck, bringing it to a stop in the parking lot of Walmart on Loop 281. The suspect exited the vehicle and surrendered to police, according to videos from bystanders. The pursuit also involved the use of spike strips.<\/p>\n


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When county deputies took over the pursuit, Longview police officers became an assisting agency by blocking off intersections, Brown said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, yeah, we\u2019re all about putting folks in jail, but our No. 1 priority is keeping people safe, and we didn\u2019t want him and his recklessness to injure anyone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Brown said the pursuit lasted \u201ca good while\u201d but did not know the exact time it ended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018He was all over the place\u2019: Longview police say Friday chase lasted \u2018a good while\u2019 Published 10:48 pm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-646178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}