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Criminals will do anything they can to avoid being caught. But, what happens when they manage to escape the cops from
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right under their noses? Here are four examples of this, starting with Joel Delgado, who had his escape planned for
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days before it actually took place. Joel had been arrested on a myriad of charges, including drug trafficking and
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shooting his girlfriend, and was looking to go away for a long time. But, after his most recent arrest, he told police
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that he'd been badly injured, so was taken to court in a wheelchair. This is why police were extremely shocked when
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this happened. I'm a paraplegic, man. I'm in a suit, too. For someone confined to a wheelchair,
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Joel sure can run. As just seconds after escaping, he completely disappeared. Now, which way he go?
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He went straight through the alley and cut that way. What you doing? You going to follow?
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My damn radio went out, man. Hold on. Damn, Joel. I tried to come behind you and get him.
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I don't know where he went. Hey, hook. The wheelchair dude got up and ran. Yeah.
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I couldn't catch his ass. And my radio was in the car. I had my camera on, though.
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The wheelchair dude. I couldn't catch his ass. He was at pulled off. Yeah. I I can't remember his name. He on the
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run. All right. Hey, he took off, man. Hey, what? The wheelchair dude ran. He had a neck brace on and all this.
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Did he really? Yeah. Uh Didn't need that wheelchair very much, did he? Hell no. Unfortunately for Joel, his freedom was
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short-lived as just a few hours later he was caught and arrested once more gaining nothing other than a count of
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felony escape to add to the list. But at least foot pursuits don't endanger the public the same way many car chases do.
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But it seems like Maliq Davis didn't care about that when he put his foot down and started to run from the cops.
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Speed right now is about 35. Police say the chase began when they heard multiple gunshots coming from the
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car, but when they lit him up the driver immediately started running. Things were
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working out for a while until he made a huge mistake. Somehow the police failed to block him
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in despite having two patrol cars and a bunch of civilian vehicles surrounding him. So unfortunately the dangerous
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chase continued. The Pontiac has made multiple mistakes in just the first few minutes of the
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chase ramming multiple civilian vehicles and a cop car, but the police are still
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unable to bring him to a stop. The driver then takes the chase to a freeway where he would spend 10 minutes weaving
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in between cars. However, after over 13 minutes of this, the cops decide that it's too dangerous
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to continue pursuing him, and they decide to give up the chase. This decision is usually made when it's
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obvious that the driver is putting members of the public in danger. If the police car stops giving chase, it's
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likely that the criminal will also slow down and start to drive in a safer manner. This chase could have been put
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to an end much faster, but the cops just didn't quite have the driving skill required. However, this next chase
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contains near-perfect driving from the police, but there was another problem that almost nobody could predict. This
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guy managed to escape in a stolen police vehicle, but was caught much faster than
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he expected. This cop managed to put all his training to work and rammed the escaping vehicle off the road. Almost
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instantly, the wrecked patrol car is now surrounded by the police, but somehow not a single cop saw this coming.
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Hey, y'all do not walk up on this car. We got enough people up there. Go! Get the dog!
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He's on the move again in a Cocoa K9 and floor going north on 95. Air 1, follow that car. You got another
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car. Air 1's got it. Still northbound. Somehow, the escapee managed to run from the first crashed patrol vehicle and
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take over another one before putting his foot down and fleeing the scene once more.
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Get the other vehicle dealing with him. Lock your doors. The suspect All right. Code 32, I-5 northbound.
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Which car is the Cocoa car? Coco SUV. Coco SUV. In the shoulder right now. Take it from the corner unit. FULL
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TICKET. ARE THERE GUNS IN THE FRONT OF THE CAR? ASK THE K9 handler from Cocoa. He says yes, they're probably his.
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Thinking fast, the cops managed to radio ahead to set up a team with a stinger, a
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piece of police equipment that punctures the tires of a vehicle and slowly brings
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them to a stop. That's why you can now start to see the car smoking, and soon enough, it'll be forced to slow down, or
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the driver will risk putting himself in a lot of danger. All right, he's breaking for the median,
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guys. He's breaking for the median. Breaking for the median. Everybody slow down. Don't ball up there.
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Underneath the over uh the wires. Underneath the wires. After coming to a safe stop, the driver
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exits the vehicle and is apprehended by the cops. It's difficult to believe such
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a professional stop was made by the same cops that let him steal a patrol car from right under their nose, but in the
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end, the stop was textbook. But if we're talking about cops who let criminals escape from right under their nose,
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there's no better example than the case of Eli the Lelobos. Eli was being tried for stabbing a 33-year-old man and was
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brought into the courthouse in handcuffs and leg shackles. But seconds after being unshackled, he decided to make a
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break for it. Somehow, Eli managed to run from one end of the courthouse to the other without
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being caught and escaped through the back door. But again, Eli didn't spend long out of police custody and after
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just a 2-hour long manhunt, he was found hiding in the closet of an apartment he
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was seen breaking into. On top of the original murder charge, he was also hit with two additional counts of burglary
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