Jot pursuit: Graffiti chase may have violated policy
Nearly three weeks after a reporter asked the sheriff of Augusta County for any dashboard camera videos of his department’s 90-mile-per-hour pursuit of a graffiti suspect, the sheriff says he doesn’t have any. But he did eventually produce a procedure manual, one that appears to have been violated with a March 2 pursuit.
“No videos exist in my agency of any pursuit involving [the suspects],” Sheriff Randall Fisher writes in a March 29 email, which comes nearly a month after a reporter began asking questions about the March 2 chase that reportedly traversed at least 15 miles, crossed three jurisdictions, blew through eight red lights, and wound up in a residential area.
For nearly a month, the Sheriff declined (more)