29/07/2025
🚔 FROM FLAMES TO FELONY CHARGES 🚔
per TPD:
“Last night, our graveyard team responded to a solo vehicle crash near the West Valley Mall. A vehicle had launched off the road, landed in a ditch, and was fully engulfed in flames by the time officers got there.
They found the driver unconscious inside, smashed the window, dragged him out, and carried him up the ditch to safety...all while the car was still burning. No hesitation. Just cops doing what cops do.
The driver, a 23-year-old man, was taken to the hospital and will be okay. Physically, anyway. Unfortunately for him, he was DUI and high on co***ne, had a loaded handgun on him and a set of brass knuckles. So after the hospital, straight to jail.
We joke a lot, but this could’ve ended in a funeral. For him, or for the officers who ran into that fire to save him. Driving impaired is no joke. Guns, drugs, booze, and a ditch full of fire is a bad mix, and we’re lucky no one else was hurt.
Make better choices. We’d much rather be giving warnings than pulling people out of burning wrecks.“
