A New Mexico police officer sent to stop the 37-year-old from running in traffic was left feeling stripped when the suspect took off in his police cruiser.
A Curry County Sheriff's deputy responded to the scene along State Road 245 in Clovis, N.M., just before midnight Saturday and found the bare-backed man, who said he’d been poisoned.
Jesus Tarango obliged police at first, sitting down on the side of the road.
But Tarango quickly jumped up and ran into traffic once more before lying face-down on the hood of a Curry County Sheriff’s cruiser. “Ok, that’s my car,” the deputy told Tarango in an incident caught on the officer’s body cam. “No one’s in there.”
That’s when Tarango sprung up and leapt into the driver’s seat of the cop car.
“Sir! Sir! Hey, get out of there,” the deputy shouted.
Tarango screeched off in the police cruiser...more
See the video at
http://nydn.us/1ILrilm
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Thursday, July 09, 2015
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