Motorcyclist crashes fleeing police, runs on foot, Clearwater FL


A motorcyclist fled from police at high speed with lights off, crashed on the east side of Causeway Blvd bridge, then ran away on foot. The suspect, described as a white male wearing a black t-shirt with a white circular design on the back and blue jeans, left the motorcycle with a possibly fake tag and helmet behind. Police are searching for the individual.
Audio|Source: Clearwater Police - East
06:34
Transcript:
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161 to speed by I was fleeing at high rate of speed.
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I am not following lights are off.
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Denver. Denver.
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136, 360. 3.6.
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We'll be pulling into the basin off Costa Bay, Florida Tag, David Fichter 9-5, John Edward, BV, VV-V-9-J-E on a silver jeep.
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That should be.
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Quick as it did.
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Dr. Ropeen coppersackler's vehicle, please.
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Go ahead.
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Florida, David, Union 64, Tom Victor, D.U.
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64 TV is a light on it.
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Support comes clear to that vehicle register to the complainer.
00:28
Okay. 136, Coast 4.
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Topper, 22nd.
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161.6.1. C2D.
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161. I was just advised that that motorcyclist likely crashed on the east side of the causeway and is possibly cleaning on foot.
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I'll be heading that direction.
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7-2 on width.
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Copyball, that 2300.
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4.05 will divert some of our resources from that motor vehicle theft to that.
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10-4[1]-8-breaking.
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6-3 attached from one of your vehicle.
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Kaywan, you know what is he currently running eastbound?
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I don't have a direction of travel for the playing motorcyclist.
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Seven, two, the motorcycles crashed out in the westbound lanes on the bridge.
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I'm with it now.
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Okay, it's on outside.
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I believe that's going to be a 104K1.
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I believe the rider was a white male wearing all black.
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He didn't have a helmet with him when he fled for me.
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Okay, let's have at least one unit to stay on the east side of the bridge, to keep him from getting on the mainland,
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and then another one on the opposite side,
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and then just fill in from there, guys.
01:20
Okay, one, just to be advised.
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We're being told by a passerby that he might have been picked up on another motorcyclist.
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Yeah, they're saying he's running eastbound on foot.
01:28
Yeah, one of the witnesses are saying that he's running eastbound over the bridge.
01:32
All right, there's a male with a hat on walking eastbound towards that unit on the south side of the bridge.
01:42
Did you wear a jeans?
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I couldn't see his bottom half because of the concrete wall.
01:46
Someone get to the bottom of that apex little pathway as well.
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Okay, one on 97.
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It's a white-male black t-shirt, blue jeans.
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161 CD. 161. Looks like it's going to be a fake tag, but can you copy the tag that is on this bike?
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Go ahead.
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Florida tag, Yankee, 68780.
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Again, I'm not sure if that's going to come back to anything legitimate.
02:05
Hey, did that guy make it to you guys yet?
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110 is, uh, did not get the description, that's dog.
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Copy not for the description.
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Six on that time, does come back to a black motorcycle, registered to a Jeffrey Pettico at Fort Reggie.
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Ten-four, the helmet is also here, so he's not going to have the helmet with him.
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Does somebody copy me about getting to the bottom with a spiral?
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Six, we're almost there.
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45, everybody else starts in of a box for right now.
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163 sitting.
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6.3. Some of the pedestrians on the bridge says there's a time lapse of about 5 minutes.
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10 4. Who has the witness that saw him running?
02:35
Anyone with the witness who saw him running?
02:37
Yes, Amber, it's info. No more.
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161, copy an updated description.
02:39
Go ahead. It's going to be a white male wearing a black t-shirt.
02:42
It looks like some kind of white, possibly circular design on the back, and blue jeans.
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10-4[1].
02:46
Okay, when he hopped the northbound sidewalk onto that sidewalk there, and he ran eastbound from there, I'm going to get the dog out over there.
02:58
We just put one.
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Yeah, 10-4[1]. 4. 4 I'll be with T-1.
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Code one for a Teno track.
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Next arriving units, let's lock down Pierce Street and Fort Harrison.
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Okay, one will work in East.
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11's code 1 reference a canine track, a subject that fled from an accident to east side of the Moro Causeway.
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4 or 5 pusey if the Eagles up.
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10-4[1].
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10-4: Acknowledgment / OK
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Causeway Blvd, Clearwater, FL 33756
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