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they patrol our streets, our highways, our borders where anything can happen -- from birth to death. >> it was like a tremendous explosion. >> and everything in between. >> i'm like, i've got to do something. i've got to do something quick. >> officers of the law see it all. >> a very young male driver, and i'm talking young. >> and so do their cameras. the eyewitnesses that never lie. >> i've got the police report. i was like lie.
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caught on camera, on patrol. hello, welcome to caught on camera. i'm contessa brewer. highway patrol officers know to expect the unexpected whenever they stop a vehicle. our first video is a tense situation at the mexican border. it grows worse when overs make a crucial discovery about who else is in the car. a burglary suspect speeds toward the mexican border with a one year old child as a hostage. >> he was holding the baby to his chest and the knife to the baby's neck. he told me they were not going to get him alive. >> monday morning, april 20, 1998, a car tears down interstate 5, south of los angeles, hitting speeds of up to
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95 miles per hour. as it hurdles toward the mexican border, officials get a heads up. >> we got a phone call probably from the california highway patrol letting us know that there was a southbound pursuit. >> the suspect is fleeing from l.a. police who try to arrest him for burglary. he's armed and dangerous, and he's not alone in the car. he's got a baby on board officials at the border brace themselves. >> the port of entry, if something's going to happen, it's going to happen here. >> there generally is a bottleneck of traffic there. they often use that scenario to help them stop vehicles. >> and that's exactly what happens on this day.
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price snakes through stalled traffic but finally, he can go no further. >> he had to just slam on the brakes and come to an abrupt stop, and he didn't want to get out of his car. he was surrounded by law enforcement from various state and local agencies. >> price locks himself in. the windows are up, but officers can see the suspect and the baby in the back seat. their first thought is to save the child. >> we all yelling at him to open the windows and to get out of the car and to let the baby go. >> eventually they started trying to breakthrough the window. >> as one officer bashes in the window, price leaps into the back seat and morales can see that he has a knife. >> he pulled a knife. and stuck it to the baby. the baby's neck. >> as the violence threatens to
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escalate, morales make astarteling choice. >> everybody had their weapons drawn, even me. i knew he was not able to shoot with a knife, so i holster my weapon. >> morales has no training as a negotiator, but his instincts kick in. the suspect calms slightly and listens as morales try does reason with him. sfwri talk to him about the baby and i made him realize that he had the knife to the baby. and, you know, i guess he realized it and he took it away from the baby and put it on himself. morales has made a connection with price. he urges the crowds of armed officers to back off so he can continue talking to the agitated suspect. >> he had the conversation through the broken window. i convinced him to get out of the car. >> clutching the baby with the knife on his own neck, the suspect climbs out. but a moment later, he gets pepper sprayed and retreats.
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>> it made him mad and went back into the car. i tried to talk to him and tell him, you know, to give himself up, that nobody was hurt yet, and, you know, that nobody needed to be hurt. >> morales start does bargain. >> we wanted to create sort of the idea that he might be able to get away so that he felt like he had an option. >> i told him, well, you know f they let you go to mexico, give us the baby. >> he took a situation that was very escalated, and he calmed him down. >> finally, it seems morales has gotten through to the distraught suspect. >> he says if you let me go to mexico, i'll give you the baby. >> price agrees. he gets out of the car, but edges toward the border. >> i tried to grab the baby, and, you know, he'd pull away. you told me, and when that was happening, he threw the baby at me and started running.
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>> he literally threw the baby to officer morales. and officer moral else caught him. >> the baby's safe, a border policeman places the suspect who keeps going. >> there was a mob of people. so he wasn't going anywhere. >> price is tackled by the mexican police. >> they got him over there. the cops got him going across the border. >> morales hands the child to charlene rodriguez waiting nearby to get the baby to safety. >> fortunately, the toddler is unharmed. officials are stunned to learn the baby is his own son, justin. >> what a terrible situation. this was going to cause a little baby to be without a father, and certainly, things were not going to go well for the father. >> things go badly indeed for the father who winds up with a
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six year prison term for robbery, vee grading arrest and child endangerment. >> we were just there, and we did what we had to do. >> for the police whose crucial decisions and split-second timing were carried out in front of multiple cameras, it's an event they'll never forget. >> it was a big experience. i was, thank god, able to talk to this gentleman and convince him to turn the baby over to us. >> the child is involved, in danger at the hands of their own parent. that's what makes it really gut-wrenching. that is the most memorable experience i've had on the job in 21 years. coming up, a dui turns into a serious threat. >> don't get back in the car. >> don't touch me. >> when caught on camera, on patrol continues. let's go. jif peanut butter. peanut butter and jelly is a staple in our house for school lunches. look at walmart's price. wow. that's great. now all your back to school meals are covered.
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with defiance. and ends with a death threat. smart andburg south carolina, the deputy is patrolling a quiet highway when he sees a driver in trouble. >> i mitt the vehicle coming towards me in the opposite lane with no headlights on. they were just creeping about 5 miles an hour. >> only the brake lights are lit. >> creeping can mean many things. it can mean they are so impaired they can't operate the vehicle. it failed to follow the curve around and almost hit the guard rail. as they were making a left turn into a parking lot i went ahead and did a traffic stop. as i approached the car and got
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within a few feet of it, i could smell alcohol coming from the car. >> hi, there. >> where you going? stay in the car for me. you're driving without your lights. >> i can't find the lights. >> so the driver has no license, no id and no idea where the lights are. >> whose car is this? >> my niece. >> whoop, the car smells like booze and the officers don't have their story together. time for a sobriety test. >> why don't you step out of the car for me. not both of you. just one of you. you sit down in the car. >> me? >> yeah. >> step to the back, back here. >> i'm fixing my clothes. >> fixing your clothes? >> yes, sir.
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>> i smell a lot of alcohol coming from the car. so i'm going to have you perform some field sobriety tests, okay? >> okay. >> the entire time he reads her her rights, she's putting herself to rights. at last, she's ready for her close up. >> first thing i'd like to do is put to your eyes. i'd like you to put your feet together as close as you can. >> i'm bowlegged. i can't do that. >> can you see this tip of my pen? >> yes, sir. >> while keeping your head still, follow the tip of my pen with your eyes only. >> she has trouble with the first test so he goes on to the next. >> you think you can walk along that line right that. >> ain't nobody that can do that. >> what, put their left foot on the line? >> ain't nobody in the world. >> after failing the first two
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tests, not even able to attempt them, she starts getting a little more hostile. >> the officer tries to give her a third test. >> come over here. >> i can't believe you're sitting there harassing me. >> i'm not harassing you. >> he tries to press ahead with the test. >> watch the tip of your toe and start counting one thousand one. >> i'm not fixing to do that. >> you're not going to do it? >> no. >> she continue does refuse and the officer has a feeling she's going to make a break for it. >> i've got a feels she was wanting to get back in the car. she was right at the rear bumper and she'd been touching it. >> turn around and put your hands behind your back. >> you just want to mess with me. >> don't get back in the car. >> don't touch me. >> she makes a dive to escape
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and gibbs has got to stop her before she gets back in her car. >> she managed to get the door open, but i managed to get one hand off the door and pull hard enough that she let go before she closed her hand in the door. >> she outweighs him. deputy gibbs has his hands full. >> she was 234 pounds, and i was 180 at the time, so she had me by a little bit. >> that effective move is called a straight-arm bar take down. >> straight-arm bar take down is essentially straightening somebody's arm and twisting it underneath so you get it underneath them. >> just when he thinks he has it under control another possible threat emerges. >> do not get out of that car. >> deputy gibbs has one
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uncooperative woman on the ground and another who's about to get involved. >> i just held that position and requested backup because i couldn't turn around. had to keep eyes on the passenger who was starting to get out of the car. she had both feet on the ground, and she was watching me. >> deputy gibbs' back up arrives. when they put the dui suspect in the car, she starts to zimmer down, but on the way to jail she starts to get worked up again. then suddenly from the back seat, deputygibbs hears a chilling threat. >> why is there going to be some killing? because you arrested me for nothing. >> that's a death threat. this woman has just added
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another charge to the charges she's already facing for tonight's escapade. >> she was charged with driving under suspension -- >> she was convicted of all those charges. it was a shocking moment caught on dash cam. a reminder that for any officer, any traffic stop can be a matter of life or death. >> that's a rarity when somebody will calmly tell you there's going to be a killing tonight. that hasn't happened to me prior or since. a trooper risk his life trying to prevent a tragedy. when caught on camera, on patrol continues. taking multiple medic, does your mouth often feel dry? a dry mouth can be a side effect of many medications but it can also lead to tooth decay and bad breath. that's why there's biotene. available as an oral rinse, toothpaste, spray or gel, biotene can provide soothing relief, and it helps keep your mouth healthy, too.
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>> january 25, 2002, 1:30 in the afternoon. this state trooper is west of new mexico traveling i-40. there's a white truck going the wrong way on the divided highway, and it's headed straight for him. >> actually was in the fast lane. and this thing want do anything but coming at us. >> he yanks his car to the right to avoid a collision and hits his lights. >> initiated my emergency equipment which is what activates my camera. >> the driver sails by, oblivious at 70 miles per hour. the trooper knows he must stop him before he kills someone. he calls for backup and makes a violent u-turn, just managing to avoid hitting an oncoming car. i'm going the correct flow of traffic and i'm watching him go
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against traffic. >> it's traffic chaos. cars and trucks swerve to avoid the wrong-way driver. >> they're doing everything in their power to avoid being struck by this vehicle. >> with lights and siren going, the trooper pulls alongside the driver, trying to get his attention. but the driver never even looks in his direct. >> just straight ahead, stonefaced, forward, like i'm not even there, like those cars are supposed to be in a two lane road and they're going by him. he has no concept of what's going on. >> could he be ill, drunk or on drugs? the trooper realizes he must do something drastic to stop this out of control truck. >> i attempted several time does go through the median to gain his attention. i even at one point was looking at an opportunity where i could take his vehicle out. >> the trooper plans a daring move, across the median pitstop, using his own car to strike the truck and knock him into a safe
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sho zone. >> you're authorized to use deadly force. and with your vehicle striking his vehicle that is a deadly forth. >> but at this high speed, this is extremely dangerous. first the trooper speeds up to get ahead of the wrong way driver. then he try does drive across the bumpy median. >> i was going about 75 miles per hour. the median is not the best place to try and drive a vehicle through. it's rough. there's rocks. there's holes. i lost control of my vehicle. >> to regain control, the trooper is forced to pull back onto the highway. he's lost speed and the wrong way driver is way out ahead of him. so the trooper stomps on the accelerator again. >> there was also a highway department truck who was also going westbound who had his lights on to help atrack the attention of the onen coming motorists. the trooper passes the wrong way
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driver again, but time is running out. then he sees what he's been dreading. an oncoming car, straight in the path of the wrong way driver. >> it was a cadillac, just two couples. and, again, i saw the driver, just lean over and was making a comment to the passenger, and that's the last thing i saw. >> he's heartsick. powerless to prevent a collision. >> i saw the impact of the vehicles in my rear view mirror. it was like a tremendous explosion. the impact of two vehicles at 75 miles an hour is like 17 sticks of dynamite. >> calling for emergency vehicles, the trooper turns and races to the scene. >> i pulled through the median, and i pulled up on the vehicles, and i went to the white truck first. the air bag was deployed. the individual was face down in the air bag. >> incredibly, the driver is alive. but just barely.
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and the trooper notices a telltale aroma. >> there was a strong odor of alcohol coming from inside the white pickup. >> next the trooper turns to examine the smashed cadillac and its four passengers. >> there was no way i could even get in to the passenger side front or rear area of the vehicle. it didn't look very good. i presumed that the, all four of them were deceased. >> all for people in the cadillac are dead. the trooper learns they are two couples. lifelong friends. they were on vacation together. >> they were definitely in the wrong place at the wrong time. these people were doing nothing wrong. they were obeying the law. and they were just driving on a, you know, nice, sunny afternoon in the state of new mexico. >> the driver of the truck that killed them turns out to be lloyd larson, a man with nine prior duis.
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>> when we took his blood that night, it was .208 which is over two times the legal limit. he's serving 20 years for four counts of vehicular homicide. this is caught on camera, but it needn't be replayed for the trooper to remember. it's seared into his mind and probably will be for the rest of his life. >> like nothing i've ever experienced. can you be doing nothing wrong. just driving down the highway, minding your own business. and something like this pops out of nowhere. and your life is taken. driving is probably the most dangerous thing that we do every day. coming up, a driver has a mysterious car accident. >> what are the chances that a cat jumps out the window and you're rear ended by a cop. >> but it's what the cops do about it that's shocking.
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i'm melissa rehberger. the state department has announced it's extending closures of embassies until next saturday. it's due to al qaeda might be planning an attack. and a snow boarder's body was found this morning on mt. hood. 8 to 10 feet of snow and ice was removed to get to his remains. now back to caught on camera. welcome back to caught on camera. i'm contessa brewer. a dashboard camera is a powerful witness. its record can back up an officer's testimony, saving court time and keeping everyone honest. but in our next story, some officers forget the camera is on while they engage in what appears to be a shocking distortion of the truth.
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it's a drama straight from hollywood. hollywood, florida, that is. >> little walt disney -- >> heard on camera, four police officers and a civilian staff ever appear to conspire to frame a young woman for an accident one of them caused. mid night, february 17, 2009. this caught on camera catastrophe starts with a cat. after having a few beers with friends, 23 year old alexandra has just rescued a stray. >> i went over to my friend's house that lives on 95 and sheridan street. he had a cat that he was going to surrender, and i said, no, no. i'll take the cat home with me. >> but driving home, the georgetown university student leaves the car window down. she says as she pulls away from
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a stoplight, the cat leaps out into the street. >> the cat's dodging cars, it's about to get hit. so i try to pull over, out of the street, quick enough and go rescue the cat. >> she says she stops, puts her hazard lights on and runs after the cat which disappears into the night. then she says she hears a crash. >> it's an a cop car. >> the policeman who has hit her joel francisco, calls another officer. >> he is a traffic homicide investigator and on the dui task force with the hollywood police department. >> he is soon joined by three other police employees. and what happens next is caught on officer presley's tash cam. >> there's two things going on here. number one, you're involved in a minor crash. >> but if she wasn't in the car when it was hit, how is she involved in the crash? >> number two, in the course of speaking with you, there's an
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odor of alcohol coming off your breath. you're a little lethargic and you may or hey not be driving impaired. >> before administering sobriety tests, presley reads alexandra her rights and questions her about the accident. >> you get to about 30 miles a how much and then you all of a sudden, this cat jumped out and you slam on the brakes. >> i do. >> so someone behind you who's also just started to accelerate forward. >> probably, yeah. >> there would be no reason for them to think. >> that you're going to abruptly slam on the brakes. >> alexandra doesn't realize where this is going. >> i thought he was being sympathetic to my situation. >> alexandra admits she'd been drinking earlier. then presley puts alexandra through the roadside sobriety test. >> you have no idea how nervous you are, by the way, when you're
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in that situation. >> okay. stop, stop, stop. >> nervous or not, officer presley decides she's flunked the tests. it's when alexandra is put in the patrol car to go to the station for a breathalyzer test that she gets a real surprise. >> it's not drivable any way. >> not drivable? the officer called it a minor accident. >> she's walking along the front of her car and can't really see the extent of the damage. >> at the station she get as even bigger shock when she hears the charges. >> dui 500. dui with property damage. >> i got the police report. and you see like says okay, officer approached the car and finds the person inside the car.
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and i was like -- lie. >> how can she prove it? she hire as lawyer who obtains officer presley's dash cam video. and they watch it together. when they get to the end, they are stunned at what they hear. >> the lead investigator for her dui case leaves the microphone on. >> unbelievably, the officers have forgotten that dewey presley's mic is still recording every word, as the officer appear does concoct a story. >> as far as i'm concerned, i'm going to put words in his mouth. she wants to accelerate, a cat jumped out, a cat jumped out the window, which at the time he thought could have been a pedestrian which distracted him because he was concerned and that's normal. and before he come does a stop, boom. >> the officer seems to spin the accident to make it appear to be alexandra's fault. perhaps that was his plan from the very first. >> i nailed her on video.
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>> now he appears to describe how he will take care of the accident report. >> i'll write the narrative out for you. i'll tell you exactly how to word it. >> presley also has instructions for the guy who does the crash drawings. karim thomas. >> karim. i want to show you something. we're going to bend this a little bit, because she's drunk, so it is what it is. >> hey, you're the expert. >> i don't want you to make things up, ever. >> i hear you, man. >> as far as i'm concerned i'm going to worry that she was in the right hand lane. when the cat jumped out she immediately got into this lane and jumped out to get the cat. >> next he enlists the help of a
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technician. >> andre, come here. it doesn't matter, she's drunk anyway. she was in this lane and cut over to this lane. >> you're astonished. >> watch being the video, alexandria and her attorney can scarry believe their ears. >> you can't believe an officer is that stupid. second of all, you're happy for your client because you've just won their case because their entire case is based upon a fraud >> for alexandra, everything finally made sense. >> i felt redeemed that what i was saying from the beginning was true. >> i'd really rather not comment any further. >> after an investigation, the four officers ant civilian are fired. but why would officers of the law go so far as to bend the truth in a police report to help a buddy? meltser has a hundred of. >> francisco had been involved in several accidents involving his police cruiser.
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and ultimately, he did not want to be disciplined more severely. >> so you're driving impaired. >> for the sake of covering up a minor mishap, five careers have been ruined. >> integrity. that's involved in every criminal investigation, no matter how big or how small. writing reports, swearing under oath is part of their job. and they have just jeopardized every case that they have ever been a part of. >> all charges against alexandra have been dropped. and once again, the dash cam has done its job, helping to keep it real. coming up, a traffic stop turns a suv into a roadside delivery room for a baby that couldn't wait. >> open your legs. open. oh, boy. when caught on camera on patrol returns. i'm here at my house on thanksgiving day,
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a speeding stop leads to an unexpected outcome. >> what's going on? >> november 5, 2007, davis county, utah, 4:15 in the morning. cory cox has been a deputy sheriff for seven years. he's spent a lot of late nights cruising the utah roads with one eye out for emergencies, for drunks or for speeders like this one. >> saw this vehicle approaching me, you know, it looked like it was going really fast. so i turned my radar on and got it on radar at 95 miles an hour. in a 55 mile an hour zone. i was thinking that this was going to be a drunk driver, somebody trying to get home, somebody just trying to have fun. >> deputy cox quickly turns
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around and starts to chase the speeder, practically burning up the highway. >> they were going so fast, by the time i got up to speed, i could barely see them. >> they were racing toward the county line. so cox calls the next county for backup. >> so i called the to next county ahead and had officers waiting for them. a then they hit a hill, and i was able to catch up to them. >> finally, the pursued vehicle slows, stops. as deputy coxae proechs the waiting car, he realizes someone in the car is either terrified or in horrible pain. >> i could hear yelling and screaming. as i walked up to the car, i said what's going on. >> we're having baby. >> is she having it right now. >> yeah. we going to have baby right now. we headed to hospital right now. >> i can't have you going 100 -- how far along is she? >> every two minutes right now.
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>> the husband seemed to be very grateful that the traffic stop did take place, because it was almost like a load got taken off his shoulders, that there was help there. >> fortunately, the deputy is a trained paramedic. but he wonders if they need an ambulance. >> does she have an urge to push? can she feel the baby coming out? >> the deputy moves to the other side of the car to examine the wife. >> she was in the front passenger seat. in the back seat was her mother that was visiting from out of town. and they also had their little 3 year old boy in the back seat. i positioned her so that i could take a look. and i can see the top of the baby's head. >> okay. is the baby's head out? >> has your water broke?
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>> all the questions that they were answering is indicating that this baby's coming out right now. >> do you want an ambulance? >> deputy cox calls an ambulance, but he suspects that this baby is going to get here faster than anything on wheels. it's a critical moment. he'll have to deliver this baby himself. fortunately, he has a birth kit in his truck for such emergencies. >> okay. let me go get my bag. hold on. don't leave. >> don't leave, she's unlikely to be going anywhere right now. >> i went and got my paramedic gear. this was 32 degrees. i didn't have any light. i didn't have any help. >> this event was taking place so fast i actually at any time have enough time to get the gear out. i had just enough time to put on my latex examine gloves. >> three minutes after he made
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the stop the backup he called gets to the scene. >> i was able to comin' dear them and get them to shine some flashlights into the car. >> racing against time, cory positions the woman in the front seat while the husband holds her shoulders and coaches the breathing. the wife's mother decide does get a better view. >> she got out of the passenger side door. she got out of the rear passenger side door and ran around and watched the delivery itself. >> mike methodically goes through the well-stocked delivery bag. >> got blankets, little hoodies for the new baby, clampes for te
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umbilical cord. >> old your legs, open. >> seven minutes after the traffic stop, the baby is here. >> right after the baby was delivered we need to suction out the baby's airway, and you can hear right after we do, the baby starts to cry. >> just as the baby emerges shall the ambulance pulls up. but depsy cox has got everything under control. >> baby's delivered. >> one last step remains, cutting the umbilical cord, but no one has scissors. >> we just have a straight scalpel to cut the umbilical cord, soy cut it for them, and i don't think that they mind at that point in time. >> okay.
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we're free. we're going to get you going in the ambulance with your baby, okay? >> the ecstatic husband seems to be doing a victory lap. >> he wanted to see the baby, see his wife. he just want to be everywhere. he was just very proud dad at that point. >> after everything is done, mom and baby are loaded into the ambulance. >> on a daily basis, we come across events, maybe not quite like this, it's a gorgeous little girl, and everybody's healthy now. >> this is one on-camera traffic stop that neither deputy cox nor the family he pulled over will ever forget. and for the family caught on camera, this is a unique birth video. coming up, more kids, but this time they're driving. >> i could see it was a very young male driver. and i'm talking young. and then. >> the little boy's eyes were
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july 26, 2009. it as 9:00 in the morning. deputy steve haney is just starting his shift in plain city, utah. >> the day was sunday. not a lot was going on. it was pretty quiet. it was a nice, sunny day. >> but deputy haney's day is about to take a turn. he's responding to a call from his dispatcher. this car is driving slowly but very erratically. the reckless driver won't pull over. as this car weaves between lanes and blows stop signs, it's
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becoming increasingly apparent this scene is anything but ordinary. >> i could not see somebody behind the steering wheel. at this point, we weren't really sure what was going to happen. >> all haney can do is try to prevent this bad situation from getting worse. >> i kept getting in the oncoming traffic lane to let people know we were coming. i wanted to try to do anything i could to get this vehicle stopped. called out on my pa system to just pull over. just stop the vehicle. basically pleading with him to end this right here, right now. >> deputy haney want does know who he's dealing with, so he speeds up, trying to pull alongside the evasive motorist. and that's when he gets his first big surprise. >> the vehicle took a the turn and i could see it was a very young male driver. and i'm talking young. >> when an underage driver at the wheel, the deputy dares not try to stop the car by ramming it.
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so he continues to plow ahead, barrelling toward the busiest intersection in town. >> that was the most dangerous part of this incident since that is a blind corner coming southbound. if something was going to happen, it was probably going to happen there. >> deputy haney does what he can to clear the intersection and hopes for the best. >> he ran the stop sign. congressed my fingers. luckily there was very little cars on the roadway. he got through there. i got back behind him. >> dispatch gives haney a clue where this car might be headed. the vehicle is registered to a house a few blocks away. heaney hopes this will end soon. >> the vehicle started pulling into a driveway. i radioed the dispatch the address of where we were pulling into. they immediately told me that's where it was registered to. the vehicle came to a stop halfway up the drive way. >> the driver side door pops ep and deputy haney finally gets a
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glimpse of the driver who's been ignoring him for more than a mile. >> i got to tell you, i was quite taken back. i saw a young, very young, more than i even imagined, driver jump out of the vehicle. >> the boy, tearing off toward his house is 7 year old preston scarbrough. later, he tells haney three took the car that because he didn't want to go to church with his parents. the video is released to the media and a few days later, his parents are still in shock. >> we could be sitting here for a lot different reason right now. we're happy it turns out okay. >> preston's parents punish him. no tv and video games for a while, but the law doesn't. >> we didn't feel like he was culpable. and that has an understanding of an intent to commit the crime. and he didn't fully understand that with his age. >> are you going to get behind the wheel of a cash again? >> hm-mm. >> while a child driver is
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punished by his parents in utah, another one is praised by police. in north platte, nebraska. why? it's a different story. caught on the dashboard camera of investigator roger freeze. on may 17, 2009. >> the call was a subject driving rather erat kri. he soon spots the vehicle. a dark pickup weaving toward him in the middle lane. it appears to be leading a parade. >> one of the vehicles had its flashers on. >> as i approached closer, i noticed the vehicle continued to come at me but moving rather slowly. >> this erratic vehicle belongs to restaurant owner phillip mains. just a few minutes earlier he was driving home with his two young sons in the back seat. >> we drove past the mall. it was roughly about 6:15, 6:20. and actually that was the last
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thing i remember. >> and then mains, a diabetic, passes out behind the wheel. >> when i got close enough to see inside the vehicle i noticed a male subject with his head back and it appeared he was un --. then i noticed a small child leaning over the front seat and had his hands on the steering wheel and was trying to drive the vehicle. >> i've got a kid trying to drive. >> that kid is 6-year-old tustin mains. >> he had taken over the steering wheel of the after lafr lafrngs. >> as he passes the vehicle, freeze realizes the situation is desperate. >> the little boy's eyes were just huge. and it was one of those nonverbal clues of please help us. so i'm like i got to do something quick. i turned around. and the other vehicle slowed
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down to let me in front of them. the pickup hit the guard rail of the bridge and bounced off. then it started accelerating again heading on towards the oncoming traffic. so i got as enclose as i could, and i ran. i'm like i got to catch it no matter what. >> i get to the driver's side and i notice the driver's eyes were barely open. he wasn't responsive at all. >> stop the car. >> i was able to jump up to the window of the driver's door and grab the gear shifter and pull it into park and the little boy was just frantic at that point, yelling at his dad to wake up. >> what's wrong with you, buddy? >> he won't wake up. >> then i realize this could have been really bad because not only was the 6-year-old in there, but his 3 year old
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brother was in the back seat of the pickup as well. >> but thanks to a child's amazing feat and an officer's quick thinking bravery all ends well. >> tustin seemed to be relieved once i got there. because he was the one protecting his family until more help could get there. >> philip mains is revived, but it isn't until he sees that dash cam video until he fully appreciates what happened. >> i'm very grateful that tustin did what he did. but just seeing an officer run up like that, you're thankful people are willing to do things like that. if you're pulled over, try being polite. the trooper could have been deals with a drunk, a felon or a child. if you have a video you'd like to send to us, you can logs onto our website.
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i'm contessa brewer. that's it for this edition of caught on camera. we have the facilities. >> brave responders. exploding projectiles. >> it was just like a rocket coming down. >> massive flames. >> it was hairy. it was hairy. >> i just closed my eyes and clench and go oh, boy. >> enormous fireballs. >>
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