The State Police muster unmarked vehicles in pursuit of speeders.
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When a BMW allegedly doing 67mph in a 45mph zone passed Trooper W.R. Floyd going northbound on Fifth Street around 3am July 3, the officer turned on his lights to pull over the culprit, the Daily Progress reports. But instead of pulling over, the pursued driver reportedly hits the pedal, speeds through a red light, turns right onto two-lane Elliott Avenue and onto Avon Street Extended at speeds at least 100mph, say police, before crashing around Arden Drive.

With Trooper Floyd still in hot pursuit, the driver flees on foot, so Floyd calls in a canine team and the Albemarle police to search, says Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller.

Remington Scott McConnell, 18, was arrested at his Keswick home and charged with possession of alcohol, felony eluding police, reckless driving, and running a red light. He was released on $3,500 bond, and he (more)

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Across from Bayly Drive on Rugby Road, a motorist veers away from the pursuit of Simpson. [Click here for video]
PHOTO BY CHARLOTTESVILLE P.D.

The Charlottesville High School student-athlete arrested last fall for a death-defying, house-scalping car crash has been given time behind bars to flex his remorse muscles after a judge— expressing shock that the teen did his most dangerous deed just two months after a conviction for a similar crime— ordered Tsaye Simpson to remain inside the juvenile justice system for three and a half years.

“It doesn’t look like being found guilty has any effect on him,” said an irked Judge Paul Peatross, ordering Simpson to remain locked up until his 21st birthday. If Simpson errs again, Peatross said, the court could impose the suspended portion of the sentence: 22 years in Virginia’s adult penal system.

The case follows an incident last August when then 17-year-old Simpson burgled a house in the Johnson Village neighborhood while the owners slept,  stole their car, and then led police on an 85 mile-per-hour chase along Rugby Road that ended in a spectacular— and puzzling— crash. He was convicted of (more)

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