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Police pursuit ends on T Street
06/13/2010 1:02 AM by John M
On a night dark with all of the street lights out, some kind of police pursuit ends with an empty car on T Street blasting hip hop, a plane circling Church Hill, and at least 10 police cars between 28th and 30th Street rolling blue lights as officers poke around vacant lots in the area apparently looking for the driver. Anybody got any more on this?
What WAS up with all the street lights being out last night? I didn’t see any from Church Hill to Fulton Hill….
The street lights were out in downtown and the bottom. I was wondering why too.
The plane woke me up at 3. It’s a City of Richmond police dept Cessna and sounds like a clunker.
Kimmy, I don’t know about everyone else but my power was out from 4pm yesterday til 4 this morning.
Richmond PD doesn’t have a helo? :-O
I think they do also. Not sure why they use the plane. You can hear it from a mile away and it doesn’t have a floodlight on it.
I saw the transformer blow on 29/M around 5pm yesterday. That may have been the cause. I called Dominion Power to report but I’m not sure me describing an explosion with sparks was understood by the operator. They called 2hrs later to confirm that I had power and seemed confused when I told them I did-and that wasn’t why I had called the first time.
Richmond PD does not have a helocopter and it shares the plane with two other jurisdictions.
I remember Ponch and Jon on CHIPS solving crimes using hang gliders. Perhaps Richmond police can go green and give this a try
There is no such thing as a flying clunker aircraft. All aircraft are inspected at least annually using a procedure approved by the FAA. It costs a minimum of around $1500, more likely twice that- assuming nothing is wrong.
Every single screw and component that goes into an aircraft has to be from an approved source, and it costs many times what a comparable part would on an automobile or for anything else you might imagine. Most every part can be tracked back to the manufacturing source.
I do wonder at the utility of such an aircraft at night if it is being used by RPD. (No such registration appears in the FAA registry.) Unless they are using night vision goggles or have a FLIR unit (infrared), you wouldn’t be able to contribute much. A helicopter could be a better platform- but much more expensive and louder.
Actually the Cessna does have a searchlight on it. I can’t count the number of times it would circle overhead when I lived in Jackson Ward. And boy could you hear that thing from a mile away, though to be fair it was pretty low when it was using the spotlight.
Yeah, that plane has a light. Very cool. I also hear the gov’t is looking into getting FAA approval to fly drones like the ones we currently use in Afghanistan… only for domestic police use. It will have night vision, bombs, and a RAY GUN!
But seriously, I bet this car was stolen and dumped… “Just the good ol’ boys / Never meanin’ no harm…”
yi’HAW!