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Iowa Man Plows Through Police Car at 130 MPH (https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=270079)

Iowa Man Plows Through Police Car at 130 MPH

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A high-speed chase that started in Clive early Friday morning ended in Indianola with a fatal crash and the discovery of a missing child.

Indianola police confirm the man killed in the wreck was 33-year-old Jeremiah Eldon Johnson. According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s website, Johnson allegedly abducted his five-year-old son during a custody dispute with the child’s mother.

The mother was awarded full custody in July of 2012, but Johnson did not return him to her custody. A missing child report was filed with Des Moines police in November of 2012.

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The chase began when Clive police say they tried to pull over a silver Volkswagen Passat around 2:47 a.m. after an officer noticed the car’s license plate was partially obscured by a plastic cover.

Initially the officer followed the vehicle as it made its way down the exit ramp if I-80 eastbound, then turned onto Hickman Avenue. The car made a sharp turn into the Love’s Truck Stop and stopped at the gas pumps.

“The officer pulled in behind him them to try and initiate a traffic stop when he engaged his emergency lights the vehicle sped up and began trying to flee from the traffic stop,” says Chief Michael Venema with the Clive Police Department.

The vehicle left the truck stop and turned back on to Hickman, then headed westbound on I-80. The Clive officer initiated a traffic stop because of the license plate issue and the suspicious behavior of the driver. The vehicle didn’t stop and took off at a high rate of speed.

The officer accelerated to 110 miles per hour but was unable to keep up with the suspect’s vehicle and radioed for assistance. The officer continued pursuit to keep the suspect’s car in sight as it turned east at the Highway 5 bypass. Once Warren County Sheriff’s deputies picked up the pursuit, the Clive officer discontinued chase.

The deputies chased the vehicle on Highway 5 through Carlisle, Hartford, and into Marion County. The suspect vehicle went south on Highway 5 to Highway 92 and headed west on Highway 92 toward Indianola.

An Indianola police officer placed stop sticks on Highway 92 at Pickard Park near the east of Indianola. Another officer positioned his car at 15th St. on Highway 92, facing northbound and turned on the emergency lights.

When the suspect’s vehicle hit the stop sticks, the officer in the car facing northbound exited his squad car after noticing the headlights from the suspect’s vehicle coming from the east. The suspect’s car hit the parked Indianola police car on its passenger side. The officer was not injured.

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The impact of the collision ripped out the engine of the patrol car where it laid to rest a block away along with the driver’s car.

Police say Johnson was killed in the crash, but he wasn’t the only one in the vehicle.

“Initially when officers walked up to the vehicle all they saw was the driver and that he was deceased until they heard someone crying from inside of the vehicle, and that`s when they noticed the child,” says Sgt. Brian Sher with the Indianola Police Department.

Officers did not say how old the child was, but the child was taken to Blank Children’s Hospital where he is in stable condition. The Iowa State Patrol confirmed the child found in the vehicle had been reported missing.

http://whotv.com/2013/02/15/deadly-c...with-fatality/

At least the piece of shit had the kid in a child seat, I guess.

Amazing how far his car went after impact

Looks like it's not the first time he's endangered a child...

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http://images.lookwhogotbusted.com/i...-ia/129566.jpg
JEREMIAH ELDON JOHNSON
Mugshot details
Name:

JEREMIAH ELDON JOHNSON
Booking Date:

August 20, 2011
Where booked:

Des Moines, IA (Polk County - Visit this agency)
Gender:

Male
Age:

31
Total Bond:

$0 or N/A
Charges:

CHILD ENDANGERMENT (OLL OTHERS – NONVIOLENT)
HARASSMENT-1ST DEGREE
ASSAULT SIMPLE

http://www.lookwhogotbusted.com/des-...-eldon-johnson

Holy ****ing shit. That is terrible.

Wow. Two great things there in the cop not being in the car and the kid being in stable condition (but injured, I suppose?).

Could have been a lot worse.

Wow!

Kid should sign a car seat endorsement deal

Piece of shit tried to murder his son in the process.

I hope Hell is real.

How did he get a Passet to do 130?!

Cop " Gee , this guy is going over 100 mph. I wonder what would happen if I use stop sticks. Nothing bad could happen . Could it? "

I want to see the body. 130 mph will do a number on you.

Cop parks his car in the offender's path and runs away.

Was an obscured license plate really worth a 100+ mph chase that ended in a death and injuring a child?

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Originally Posted by GoWalrus (Post 9406426)

I want to see the body. 130 mph will do a number on you.

They had footage of the wreck on the news this am, with a sheet blocking the window of the dead guys car.

kcci.com might have pics

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Originally Posted by GoWalrus (Post 9406426)

I want to see the body. 130 mph will do a number on you.

You're a sick ****er.

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Originally Posted by ThaVirus (Post 9406473)

You're a sick ****er.

http://i.imgur.com/HcseMtj.gif

Why was the cop in the middle of the road anyway?

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Originally Posted by -King- (Post 9406527)

Why was the cop in the middle of the road anyway?

CrazyCoffey does dumb things.

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Originally Posted by -King- (Post 9406527)

Why was the cop in the middle of the road anyway?

Parked his car there as a road block.

Damn. Those cops had to have been shaken up a bit when they saw the kid. POS dad though

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Originally Posted by jspchief (Post 9406458)

Cop parks his car in the offender's path and runs away.

Was an obscured license plate really worth a 100+ mph chase that ended in a death and injuring a child?

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Originally Posted by ChiefsNow (Post 9406418)

Cop " Gee , this guy is going over 100 mph. I wonder what would happen if I use stop sticks. Nothing bad could happen . Could it? "

Both of these. ****ing stupid decision especially since they didn't verify nobody else was in the car.

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Originally Posted by jspchief (Post 9406458)

Cop parks his car in the offender's path and runs away.

Was an obscured license plate really worth a 100+ mph chase that ended in a death and injuring a child?

Ask the guy that died. It was his foot on the gas pedal.

http://coolice.legis.iowa.gov/Cool-I...de&input=726.6

That'll buff out.

His old man is a TV repairman, and has a killer set of tools

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Originally Posted by jspchief (Post 9406458)

Cop parks his car in the offender's path and runs away.

Was an obscured license plate really worth a 100+ mph chase that ended in a death and injuring a child?

They didn't know a kid was in the car

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Originally Posted by -King- (Post 9406258)

Looks like it's not the first time he's endangered a child...

http://www.lookwhogotbusted.com/des-...-eldon-johnson

Looks like the one guy from all the Sandler movies..

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Jonathan-Loug...VSg~~60_57.JPG

Crazy. I grew up in Marion County. Know those roads well.

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Originally Posted by GoWalrus (Post 9406426)

I want to see the body. 130 mph will do a number on you.

After working in a level 1 trauma center for 5 years trust me, you don't want to see the body. You can't unsee something.

I went to school with this guy. I remember him in 5th grade he was always singing '**** the police"

Is that irony?

VW passats do 130?
and can take out a crown vic?
not only that but a cop crown vic
wholly shit

thought the cop crown vic were built on the frame f150s gave up

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Originally Posted by BigRedChief (Post 9406669)

After working in a level 1 trauma center for 5 years trust me, you don't want to see the body. You can't unsee something.

Yup. I've been trying to unsee Iraqi bodies and limbs for 20 years.

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Originally Posted by Hoover (Post 9406584)

They didn't know a kid was in the car

Not really the point. High speed chases put a lot of people in danger. At what point does law enforcement weigh the risk?

I watched Ubandale cops do the same thing to a guy on a motorcycle. Witnessed it firsthand. How can you justify encouraging those speeds over minor infractions?

High speed chases are stupid.

Cops luv that kinda chit . thats why they're cops .....

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Originally Posted by GoWalrus (Post 9406426)

I want to see the body. 130 mph will do a number on you.

4 chan will prob have it.

BTW, it's ****ing awesome the kid survived.

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Originally Posted by Bewbies (Post 9406670)

I went to school with this guy. I remember him in 5th grade he was always singing '**** the police"

Is that irony?

foreshadowing

Only on CP does a guy driving 130 smash through a cop car and the police get questioned.

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Originally Posted by RockChalk (Post 9406921)

Only on CP does a guy driving 130 smash through a cop car and the police get questioned.

Yep.

We all know the police give the general public plenty of reasons to question the things some of them do.

This is not one of them.

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Originally Posted by jspchief (Post 9406458)

Cop parks his car in the offender's path and runs away.

Was an obscured license plate really worth a 100+ mph chase that ended in a death and injuring a child?

Holy crap, what a stupid post.

:facepalm:

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Originally Posted by Dave (Post 9406931)

Holy crap, what a stupid post.

:facepalm:

How many lives are endangered in a high speed chase across 3 counties? With a vehicle description and a partial plate number could they have arrested the guy later? What if someone innocent pulled out in front of that car not realizing they were traveling 100mph? What if the cop hadn't exited his vehicle in time and was killed as well? Is any of that worth it?

High speed chases generally are highly irresponsible.

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Originally Posted by jspchief (Post 9406971)

I agree. Innocent people get killed in police chases pretty often. There has to be a smarter way to deal with that.

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Originally Posted by jspchief (Post 9406971)

With a vehicle description and a partial plate number could they have arrested the guy later? .

I somewhat agree with you on the Chases being a bad idea, but it would be impossible to convict a person on their plate number for evading police.

It's nearly impossible to prove who is driving.

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Originally Posted by notorious (Post 9406974)

I somewhat agree with you on the Chases being a bad idea, but it would be impossible to convict a person on their plate number for evading police.

It's nearly impossible to prove who is driving.

Explain red light cameras and speeding cameras.

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Originally Posted by Brock (Post 9406977)

Explain red light cameras and speeding cameras.

Hire a lawyer and get out of them.

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Originally Posted by notorious (Post 9406996)

Hire a lawyer and get out of them.

Are convictions difficult to obtain from camera evidence?

Picture quality is an absolute must with not any question

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Originally Posted by Brock (Post 9406999)

Are convictions difficult to obtain from camera evidence?

No. They don't care who was driving, the owner of the car gets ticketed.

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Originally Posted by Brock (Post 9406999)

Are convictions difficult to obtain from camera evidence?

If they have no evidence that you were driving the car at the time, how can you be convicted?

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Originally Posted by notorious (Post 9407012)

If they have no evidence that you were driving the car at the time, how can you be convicted?

It happens every day. I am sure you know this.

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Originally Posted by Brock (Post 9407022)

It happens every day. I am sure you know this.

On felony charges?

Besides, I would assume that a lot more stop light tickets would get thrown out if people wanted to invest 1k in a lawyer instead of paying a small fine.

a moving violation is not a felony. totally different standards of evidence for enforcement.

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Originally Posted by notorious (Post 9406331)

How did he get a Passet to do 130?!

If he had a turbo model the speed doesnt surprise me, i drove a regular model for a few months and those mfers will GET IT.

What a piece of dirt that guy was, that ended as well as it possibly could have... sperm donor dead, child alive.

They're saying tonight the rest of the story is that this guy had just returned from 3 tours abroad in the Army. Must have been having some related issues to that.

The real reason he was running was a custody battle and was afraid he was going to lose the kid to a mother who didn't care for him properly or something.

Apparently wasn't running from a minor moving violation.

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Originally Posted by Iowanian (Post 9409161)

They're saying tonight the rest of the story is that this guy had just returned from 3 tours abroad in the Army. Must have been having some related issues to that.

The real reason he was running was a custody battle and was afraid he was going to lose the kid to a mother who didn't care for him properly or something.

Apparently wasn't running from a minor moving violation.

Interesting, considering he was driving 130 MPH with said kid in the car.

God got this one right. The dumbass died and the innocent lived.

the sick side of this guy wanted him and his son to die together. Otherwise he would have touched the brakes

Hard to say.

Not sticking up for him because I know nothing personally, but at 130mph, depending on the intersection he might not have even seen the car he hit.

It's just how we roll in Iowa