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Deportee leads police on high speed chase in cop’s stolen car

Apr 24, 2011 News

A young deportee from East La Penitence is lucky he is still alive after leading police on a high speed chase yesterday midday in a car that he had stolen from a policeman the previous night.
The chase ended behind the Stabroek Market after ranks who were giving chase managed to shoot out the left rear tyre of the stolen car.
Kaieteur News understands that the car belongs to Corporal Hyrone Johnson of the East Coast Demerara Anti-Crime Unit.
According to reports, Johnson was with some friends and had parked his car, a Toyota Carina AT 212, with the keys in the ignition, near the Berbice Bus Park, on Good Friday night when the suspect brazenly jumped in and drove off.
A source close to Johnson told Kaieteur News that at first the Corporal thought that it was one of his friends attempting to park his car properly.
“Is one oh dem boys tell he look ah man driving away you car that he realise what happened,” the source said.
The matter was reported and all patrols were alerted as an all station message was immediately sent out.
According to reports, hours after the car was stolen, a patrol intercepted it at Eccles on the East Bank of Demerara but attempts to apprehend the driver failed despite the ranks discharging several rounds.
“The men get away through Albouystown because that car fast,” the source told this newspaper.
Police intensified their hunt and it was not long after that they came upon the car again, at Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara.
Again they gave chase but this time the driver was not so lucky as he was forced to head into the busy downtown area.
Determined to recover the car, the police opened fire, deflating the left side rear wheel, almost disabling the vehicle.
Eventually the ranks managed to block the car behind the Guyana Fire Service Headquarters and apprehend the driver, whose name was given as Andrew Taylor.
The car sustained damage to the front because it collided with a minibus during the chase.
This newspaper was told that the policeman’s bank and identification cards are missing as well as a sum of cash that were in the vehicle when it was stolen.
From all appearances the perpetrator went on a drug binge, since several utensils used for smoking cocaine were found in the recovered car.
“At least he lucky police didn’t shoot he,” the source said.

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