August 19, 201312 yr Hey guys, i don't post much because i mainly play. Anyways, i'm entering my freshman year at the college and just had my first ride-along with the Sheriff's Office here in my city. Was my first time doing anything actually close to that, so it was pretty awesome. Just wanted to give the basics on what happened and share my experience with you guys. :) We did the 2p-10p shift, i just got back a couple hours ago. Started out just did a call on a possible DWI but it was GOA as soon as we got to the area, so disregarded. We then were headed back around patrolling, and a car cut us off nearly 5 minutes in and so the officer i was with yelled "Fu***** serious, man?" and lit him up. Was REALLY hilarious. Guy pulled over and ended up being just an older man, and he didn't really know what was going on so he was told to pay attention. While wrapping up the traffic stop, we heard screeching of brakes and voila, what a coincidence. An accident happened directly on the other side of the 4 lane road (with a median in between as well). So the traffic stop ended and we pulled the car to the other side, and stopped traffic. It was a single occupant one-vehicle crash. Was a pretty quick cleanup once the road was shut down and he wasn't hurt. The office let me write the report for practice. Neat! At this time we got a call from the neighboring county and DPS (I'm in Houston, TX, btw). The DPS and neighboring county was in pursuit of 4 males in a stolen van fleeing down the highway. We hit the lights and sirens and were going about 85 in a 20 mph zone through my neighborhood where i live. Once we caught up to the highway, we still weren't fast enough to intercept so we got up to the speed of 110 on the very left. About 10 miles down we took the exit and found the van along with the other dozens of officers and 3 agencies that ended up being there (HPD now as well). The van's doors were open and you can see where all 4 males bailed. A perimeter was setup between all agencies around this 1.5 square mile block of woods/trees and the roads were blocked off. Guns were drawn. They got K9's and Fox (Houston's helicopter) to all show up on scene. The trees were too thick for the thermal in the sky to pickup the perps, so they sent in the dogs. All 4 suspects were in custody within 5 minutes. 2 were bit by dogs and i was about 5 feet from one when we came over to the road where they came out of the woods at. News crews were there. I saw unmarked chargers and impala's, the helicopter and they also had unmarked plain-clothes units on foot all around with there rifles drawn. This was definitely the peak of the shift and only 2 hours in. Later on we ended up responding to a male harrassing employees at a resturaunt but this wasn't anything big. Once we showed up he was already gone and supposedly went into the pool hall next door. We got 2 more units and went in and he was found and questioned, and warned with a Trespassing Warning. Also was shown how to look up perps in order to see there full criminal background. Also really cool. Finished up the night with a major accident where a truck was flipped over. they shutdown the roadways and had to use the jaws of life in order to cut out the passenger that was stuck in the car. Anyway, i had lots of fun on this. Just wanted to share my experience with you guys.
