A high-speed chase involving a stolen car and the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office ended with a fiery crash on Tuesday.
SEMMES, Ala. – A reported house break-in touched off a car chase that ended Tuesday with a fiery wreck of a stolen car near Mary G. Montgomery High School.Sgt. Mark Bailey told FOX10 News that the burglary occurred at about 1:30 p.m. at a hour on Gaynor Road, off of Lott Road, in the northern part of the county. He said two teenagers from Gautier, Mississippi, ransacked the home, which they apparently picked at random.
Deputies patrolling the area spotted a black Cadillac after an alert from OnStar and attempted to stop the vehicle. When the driver would not yield, deputies gave chase at speeds reaching 70 to 75 mph until the car overturned along the side of Moffett Road. Bailey said the driver and passenger got out of the car before it burst into flames.According to the Sheriff’s Office, deputies found the driver hiding behind a Dumpster; the other teenager was in a wooded area near the wreck.
Bailey said investigators questioned the youths Tuesday afternoon at the Northside Substation, which is just up the road from the school. He said they have been charged with attempting to elude, burglary, reckless endangerment and receiving stolen property. That property was the Cadillac, which Bailey said had been reported stolen Tuesday morning in Mississippi.“They were just over here joyriding,” he said.Download the FOX10 Weather App.
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