19-Year-Old Flees Police with 6 Kidnapped Kids

An officer attempts to stop a vehicle knowing that six children inside are desperately trying to escape. I'm out of bus today. Can't part. This is like a forty-two right on the same right. Got no drivers. Can't part that thirty-three. First battle of Jackson. Start down on Jackson. I've been thirty-three. Here, forty-one. I'm going to sixty-six. He's two-six-two. So, he's driving on that. I got eyes on it. Westbound thirty-six. Please, hold on. Six-six-eight. Six-six-eight. He's westbound thirty-five-street. Just follow him. These states are fifty-five. Here, eastbound on thirty-five-street. Approach the twenty-five and his speeds are still fifty-five. Are we going to southbound and turn on the light? That's four southbound twenty-five-street. That's great, it's light 'em up. Yeah, four down thirty-one southbound thirty-five-street. That's five southbound twenty-five-street. Approach the twenty-five-street. His speeds are fifty-six-six-two. I'm gonna get him. And four. Good, good. Secondary unicorn. And four, fifth pale. From behind him, we're on westbound fourteen. We pointed to that one. Ten four, westbound fourteen-street. All thirty-seven, I'm just waiting for my camera to cool down. Ten four, nice and. Ten four, back to eastbound fourteen-street. Ten four, eastbound fourteen. Point to that. Ten five, six. Ten five, six, six, seven. Ten five, six, seven, eight. Alright, these dogs are tired. Ten four, one, two, three. Point thirty-second happening. Ten four, thirty-second happening. I can't fit him in this side. Freeze! Freeze! Get on the ground! Get on the ground! Get on the ground! Just keep on the car. Alright, let's find this. Hold on, hold on. Hold on. Hold on, don't move. Don't move. Hey, come on. He's on the ground. I know, chill. Sit back down for a second. Why are you driving like that bro? I'll tell you before we get far. You were driving though? I was driving for the past two years. Turn the car off. Please come on mama. Put it in here. We're going to find the stop. Everyone, I don't know if they got to you yet. But if they're at sixteen ten, go with these thirty-second happening. Everybody, everybody, everybody have a seat right here. Right here, please. Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit. Sit down, please. Thank you. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Bro, we should have stayed. I was trying to. He hit something. He hit something. He hit something. He hit something. That's why I don't even know what I'm trying to speak. What's your first and last name, buddy? I live in Gainesville. And then your mom's living in Gainesville? I can't hear you. You need your parents to know where you're at and where you're supposed to be with. Bro, hey, bro. Hey. What's your problem? Can I talk to one of us any more? Bring something in there. Yeah, for him. Bro, wonderful. Car normal coming to Gainesville. Well, no, no, no. We're calling everybody's parents. Car. So, I'm dealing with he lose what he wants. The car's going through Stanford Street. You sure? You got the other way. So, what I did was I set still. So, I said, this is confusing. So, where it's going. How did he get there? He's got a big wagon. I just waited till you took over. And I went over to go check that one. I hear him 331 as I'm knocking on the door. And then I see somebody peek to the blinds. And I was like, I got to go to that. I'm not going to leave him hanging because there wasn't anybody with him. What's your name? All right, you have the right to remain silent. Do you understand that? Yeah. Why are you driving like that? You almost killed somebody. I'm just going to hear a thing. How old are you? I'm 19. What's going on, brother? I don't know. I only have my girlfriend. I don't take care of her. I ain't got rid of her by the gas station. The problem is, I didn't know there was one on the site. You guys. And then we all seemed like leaving the gas station. I was trying to figure out which way I was trying to go. So, that's why I was on that side of the road. And I've seen all the lights in the band. So, all these other kids, where are they from? Different places. We were all just hanging out. That's awesome. Your girlfriend? I got to explain something to some people. Okay? Maybe he's the brother to some of these. Oh, there's a helicopter girl. There's a helicopter girl. I don't even know. I've already picked you up. He just picked you up. You were using all of 14. That's okay. That's okay. That's okay. And then the car. You shouldn't have known mom's phone number. So, you don't know our phone number? No. What's your address? Here's the deal, darling. If you don't start giving us answers, you don't get to leave here. I'm only allowed to really see to your parents. Can you tell me your address, please? It would run the tag. Get to see where the beep was coming back to you. Who's car is this? Hey, what's your grandma's number? Hi, is this. Do you know where your car is? Where is it supposed to be? Okay, so your grandson has it. Did you know he had your car? He does have your car. Yes, ma'am. I'm looking. I don't want you to put yourself in a medical episode. Has he ever had permission to drive your car before? He's had permission in the future or in the past, but he didn't have permission today. I spoke to grandmother and she wants to report the car so it's probably going to be civil because he's had permission to drive it before. You were trying to jump out of the car? Yes. I understand you were scared. Don't be trying to jump out of the car because that's dangerous. That's dangerous. But he was driving crazy. I was trying to flip. He was driving crazy. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no Why is it supposed to leave you? That was not given him the business. You wanna talk to him? - You gonna work, girl. - That was my mom. I'd roll down the window, helping pop that door. - So what the, what's your mother's problem? Taking my damn children. Why did you take my kids? - You said they wanted to come with us. - But do you really like them kids? - Yeah. - You grown, so why would you do that, huh? - It was the other stuff behind it, right? This can't talk too much, 'cause probably it's around. This right here is nothing prepared for what could happen. I'm glad I. - No, it's not. - They all could have been dead. I heard of one of your girls telling a kid out there that he was on the inner side. He was here, I was in a three miles an hour. - You can do whatever you want. You wanna stand outside, you can stand outside if you want. - You got any guns, lightsabers, nothing like that on you? - No. He's laying down in my back seat right now. Oh he wasn't driving. No, he wasn't driving. He's been charged with something. Yeah, at least three felonies right now. Oh, Lord. Probably more. You just got out the program about two months ago. You ready to go? Yeah, I would do that, bro. You know you and big trouble now because you're on probation. He's not getting charged with nothing. The driver is. He looked up, damn it. He's so embarrassing, bro. Oh, excuse me. How many charges do I have? I don't know. I think six. Six. We had to scrape the car a little bit. Once I'm already, and they couldn't make it in my own way, but I didn't want to get out of that, bro. Do you know the person that was driving this car? Yeah, I've seen him before, but they haven't been friends long. I mean, not even two weeks. I didn't want him hanging with those older boys. You know, I had issues with him in the past, no, and that. There's no business hanging out with the 19 year old. His mind is not developed as much. I don't understand why this 19 year old man is hanging out with kids. It makes absolutely no sense to me. That's all that boy that I didn't want him hanging with my son. The male that had her was 19 years old. Are really? Do you want to pursue charges against this male? Definitely. He needs to learn to stay away from minors. Who knows what he was doing with them, which I don't think that was necessarily the case in this instance, but why are you hanging out with 12 and 14 years? The suspect, identified as 19 year old Jeremiah Lewis, was charged with aggravated fleeing or attempting to elude with injury or damage, false imprisonment of a child under 13 years of age, five counts of false imprisonment, six counts of child abuse, five counts of interference with child custody, leaving the scene of a crash with property damage, resisting an officer without violence, and grand theft of a motor vehicle. According to court records, Jeremiah was adjudicated guilty of two counts of felony fleeing or attempting to elude police with disregard for safety, grand theft of a motor vehicle, resisting or obstructing an officer without violence, and two counts of leaving the scene of a crash involving property damage only. The remaining charges were dropped or abandoned by the prosecutor. Sentence terms are not shown in the records.