on impact, albright had lifted the man off the ground, possibly saving him from a worse injury. apparently i picked him straight up off the ground because my car hit him on the front side of his legs. and it smashed him down on top of the hoot of my car. take those off of him, please. albright and another officer dislodged the man from between the two vehicles. incredibly, he only suffers minor injuries. once i realized where everybody was at, i kind of collapsed in the grass and that s when it really started hurting. oh, my knee is killing me. authorities soon determine that the driver who slammed into trooper albright s vehicle is 50-year-old robert stein. stein is intoxicated and has traces of cocaine in his system. police arrest stein and he s found guilty two of counts of aggravated vehicular assault and is sentenced to three years in prison. kind of one of those things
deal. it s like, it s 2:00 in the morning. you crashed a car into the bank. there s a problem here. it turns out the suspects are not drunk. officers discover that the high-flying jeep was stolen that night from a local dealership. but that s just the beginning. after we searched them, there were 24 more sets of keys that they had taken from this dealership that they had stolen the car from. had they not been caught, they could have easily gone back and taken more cars. the driver, michael turner is convicted on multiple charges, including breaking and entering and grand theft auto and is sentenced to one year in prison. charges are dismissed for passenger carl hankerson. but to trooper albright, the most shocking part of that night is not that the suspects make it out alive or even the gaping hole in the wall. it s the fact that through all of the damage, the bank s alarm doesn t go off. to me it should have set some sort of alarm off with a big hole in the wall, but it didn t
a dui test. i did all my field sobriety test. determined the individual was too intoxicated to be driving. placed him under arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol. as he cuffs the man, another cruiser pulls behind albright s vehicle and turns on his dashboard camera. he pulled up to help keep an eye on me, the traffic and the passenger that was in the car. trooper albright pats down the dui suspect, searching for weapons and drugs. all right. go ahead and spread your feet apart. spread your feet way apart. point your toes out. i was almost done. i was searching his very last leg to put him in the car and take him to jail. okay. you say you don t have anything else that s going to stick me or poke me or cut me, right? suddenly, without warning another vehicle side swipes the backup cruiser and careens
full speed into albright s squad car. we look up and you can see us look up right at the last second and that s when i see my car coming. both dash cams catch the brutal crash. [ bleep ]. oh, [ bleep ]. albright s left leg is mangled on impact and the pain is excruciating. i had planted my foot to try and move out of the way and the bumper actually hit me on the inside of my leg and it bent my knee to the side instead of front, back like it s supposed to bend. my knee is killing me. son of a the force kind of just threw me over the top of the first car that i had stopped. and i ended up next to the guard rail. trooper albright goes into crisis mode. he hops on one foot, tending to the injured. kind of one of them things where you fight through the pain. okay. where is the officer at? where is this guy at? where is this person at? what s going on? the dui suspect is crushed between his car and albright s cruiser.
albright can t believe his eyes. he went 14 to 15 feet high when he ramped it because his passenger side mirror hit the light pole right beside the bank. that was 13 feet up. trooper albright pulls into the bank s parking lot and calls for backup. as he cautiously approaches the bank, he expects the worst. when he first hit the bank i thought, oh, my god. i m going to have dead people. to albright s surprise, the driver, marcus turner and his passenger carl hankerson, are very much alive. i see two sets of feet diving over the counter inside the bank to try and hide. so i just kind of kept walking back and forth from the front to the back until other officers arrived and then we surrounded the building. hankerson and turner give up and turn themselves in. they acted like it was no big deal. it s like, it s 2:00 in the morning. you crashed a car into the bank. there s a problem here.