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Safety, my shift partner's safety, and the public's safety. he was all over the road. >> halloween, 2010. patrolman victor villa of the new mexico state police hears about a pursuit in progress involving a camaro outside of las vegas, new mexico. a few minutes earlier the car had been pulled over for speeding and suspicion of dui, but the driver sped off before he could be detained. patrolman villa joins the chase. >> be advised. blue camaro just had his flashers on. unknown reason. >> when i got behind the camaro, it was traveling in and out of lanes. it was traveling at a high rate of speed....

Front of the suspect vehicle trying to deploy stop sticks. mechanism that we use to disable a vehicle that we're following. >> the thieves swerve around the stop sticks and plow ahead. >> now we're in it. we're in the chase. lights and sirens. we're following behind the vehicle. >> out of view of the dash board camera, the nissan driver races toward the interstate, veers to avoid traffic, and rolls multiple times down an embankment. >> the vehicle crash definitely appeared like it was out of a major motion picture, like a stunt driver had made the vehicle roll like that. # >> the occupants are...

>> when we first deployed the stop sticks, the suspect pulled into the median, and at that time that's when the sergeant pulled his vehicle in front of the suspect's vehicle. >> the chase appears to be at an end, but the driver isn't giving up so easily. >> we attempted to pull out the driver from the vehicle, and he wasn't cooperating with us, so at that point, that's when we determined we had to break the glass of the vehicle. >> using his side arm, sergeant ramero, seen here in the white shirt, tries as hard as he can to shatter the window, but the glass on the brand-new camaro is difficult...

Can with our stop sticks, i set up two stop sticks instead of one. >> the plan works and the camaro's tires are punctured. but the results are not what he expected. >> i was worried he wasn't stopping, but now that he was driving on flat tires and with sparks coming off the rims, i was worried. >> with smoke billowing from its tires, the camaro is still speeding along at 80 miles an hour, but at least, it runs over a final set of stop sticks. unable to continue driving on rims, the driver stops the camaro in the middle of the street. patrolman villa races to the driver's side window with his c...

The bus is stolen from this albuquerque bus yard. the suspect drives 80 miles west on i-40 to the city of grant. >> negative. >> as for now, just one male driver. that's all we have. now state, city and county law enforcement are in hot pursuit. they turn him to stop the empty bus because it reaches the rush hour. the plan, stop the vehicle with spike belts, also known as stop sticks, strip ls of wire designed to puncture tires. mile marker 137 is 13 miles for the albuquerque city line.