A South Carolina police chief said a chase with a reported stolen vehicle ended when the driver launched the car over a 50-foot drop onto railroad tracks.(Above video is the Tuesday morning headlines.)Pendleton police Chief Robert Crosby said he was out assisting the city planner at about 1:50 p.m. on Tuesday with some code issues when he spotted a vehicle driving recklessly.Crosby said he got behind the vehicle, ran the license plate and found it was stolen out of Spartanburg County.The chief said he attempted to stop the vehicle at Broad and Cherry streets, but the driver refused to stop, and the chase began.During the chase, Crosby said the driver was throwing what he believed to be drugs out the window of the vehicle.The chase ended with a crash about 10 minutes later when the driver tried to make a right turn onto Queen Street off of Greenville Street, and he went down under a railroad overpass near the front of Pendleton Town Hall.An Anderson County Sheriff’s K9 unit assisted with the arrest, and deputies took Thomas Devon Capell, of Pendleton, into custody after the crash, Crosby said.”He is well-known to law enforcement in the area,” Crosby said, adding this is the third stolen vehicle they have caught Capell with.He was taken to the hospital for evaluation, but Crosby said he did not see any severe injuries.The tracks were closed to railroad traffic while the scene cleared, officials said.Capell has not yet been booked into the Anderson County Detention Center.
A South Carolina police chief said a chase with a reported stolen vehicle ended when the driver launched the car over a 50-foot drop onto railroad tracks.
(Above video is the Tuesday morning headlines.)
Pendleton police Chief Robert Crosby said he was out assisting the city planner at about 1:50 p.m. on Tuesday with some code issues when he spotted a vehicle driving recklessly.
Crosby said he got behind the vehicle, ran the license plate and found it was stolen out of Spartanburg County.
The chief said he attempted to stop the vehicle at Broad and Cherry streets, but the driver refused to stop, and the chase began.
During the chase, Crosby said the driver was throwing what he believed to be drugs out the window of the vehicle.
The chase ended with a crash about 10 minutes later when the driver tried to make a right turn onto Queen Street off of Greenville Street, and he went down under a railroad overpass near the front of Pendleton Town Hall.
An Anderson County Sheriff’s K9 unit assisted with the arrest, and deputies took Thomas Devon Capell, of Pendleton, into custody after the crash, Crosby said.
“He is well-known to law enforcement in the area,” Crosby said, adding this is the third stolen vehicle they have caught Capell with.
He was taken to the hospital for evaluation, but Crosby said he did not see any severe injuries.
The tracks were closed to railroad traffic while the scene cleared, officials said.
Capell has not yet been booked into the Anderson County Detention Center.
