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Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDE
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"John B." <jlb@computac.com> wrote in
news:1196264772.922248@nfs-db1.segnet.com:
> Run down by a supposedly "professional" driver --- one of their own!
>
>
> http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/south/view.bg?articleid=10475
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>
> 2 deputies killed by police vehicle during Fla. car chase
> Authorities search for suspects
>
> By Associated Press | Wednesday, November 28, 2007
> PAHOKEE, Fla. - Two Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies who had tried
> to stop a stolen vehicle on a rural road in the Everglades were killed
> when they were struck by a police car early today. Another deputy was
> injured, authorities said.
>
> Scores of officers combed the region looking for two suspects in the
> car theft, and later said they had one man in custody.
>
> The deputies had put spikes on a road that punctured the stolen car's
> tires. But when they ran to take the spikes off the road they were
> struck by a canine patrol vehicle at about 1:45 a.m., Sheriff Ric
> Bradshaw said.
>
> "They probably did not estimate the K-9 was coming at the speed that
> it was," Bradshaw said at a news conference, noting that it was dark
> at the time.
>
> It was not immediately clear what happened to the stolen car after its
> tires were punctured, but investigators tracked skid marks to a car
> that went into a canal in Pahokee, a town on the shore of Lake
> Okeechobee about 45 miles west of West Palm Beach.
>
> Two men suspected of stealing the car were initially believed to have
> fled into sugarcane fields between Pahokee and Belle Glade, and at
> least 75 officers and several canine units spent five hours combing
> the fields.
>
> However, that focused search was ended and detectives pursued other
> leads, with deputies driving back roads in the area.
>
> Police later said they had one person in custody but weren't sure yet
> if he was one of the two suspects. Bradshaw said authorities also
> wanted to talk to a 19-year-old male but he did not call him a suspect
> or explain investigators' interest in him.
>
> The chase began after a Belle Glade resident called police to report
> that a neighbor's car was being stolen. Deputies who responded saw the
> car and followed it.
>
> The sheriff identified the dead officers as 13-year veteran Donta
> Manuel, 33, and Jonathan Wallace, 23, who had been with the sheriff's
> office for 1
news:1196264772.922248@nfs-db1.segnet.com:
> Run down by a supposedly "professional" driver --- one of their own!
>
>
> http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/south/view.bg?articleid=10475
> 68&format=text
>
> 2 deputies killed by police vehicle during Fla. car chase
> Authorities search for suspects
>
> By Associated Press | Wednesday, November 28, 2007
> PAHOKEE, Fla. - Two Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies who had tried
> to stop a stolen vehicle on a rural road in the Everglades were killed
> when they were struck by a police car early today. Another deputy was
> injured, authorities said.
>
> Scores of officers combed the region looking for two suspects in the
> car theft, and later said they had one man in custody.
>
> The deputies had put spikes on a road that punctured the stolen car's
> tires. But when they ran to take the spikes off the road they were
> struck by a canine patrol vehicle at about 1:45 a.m., Sheriff Ric
> Bradshaw said.
>
> "They probably did not estimate the K-9 was coming at the speed that
> it was," Bradshaw said at a news conference, noting that it was dark
> at the time.
>
> It was not immediately clear what happened to the stolen car after its
> tires were punctured, but investigators tracked skid marks to a car
> that went into a canal in Pahokee, a town on the shore of Lake
> Okeechobee about 45 miles west of West Palm Beach.
>
> Two men suspected of stealing the car were initially believed to have
> fled into sugarcane fields between Pahokee and Belle Glade, and at
> least 75 officers and several canine units spent five hours combing
> the fields.
>
> However, that focused search was ended and detectives pursued other
> leads, with deputies driving back roads in the area.
>
> Police later said they had one person in custody but weren't sure yet
> if he was one of the two suspects. Bradshaw said authorities also
> wanted to talk to a 19-year-old male but he did not call him a suspect
> or explain investigators' interest in him.
>
> The chase began after a Belle Glade resident called police to report
> that a neighbor's car was being stolen. Deputies who responded saw the
> car and followed it.
>
> The sheriff identified the dead officers as 13-year veteran Donta
> Manuel, 33, and Jonathan Wallace, 23, who had been with the sheriff's
> office for 1
