Funny update from tonight (the following night from this first post):
It was shift change, and I was waiting for my other CPO to come back and relieve me. While BSing with the USO I heard my LT describe an odd acting vehicle at a near bye intersection. He requested another near bye CPO to come and take a look at it. That last transmission was very calm. His next transmission was him yelling for assistance, breathing heavy, and sounded like he was running. He described a male that had thrown a female out of the passenger side of an SUV, she started to run away, he tackled her, threw her to the ground and slung her over his shoulder. He threw her down again, and then threw her into the car. Myself and the other CPO were out the door and on our way like loony toon road runners (smoke and all), enroute to his near bye location. Neither of us were armed at that moment due to shift change. We flew to meet our LT at the intersections traffic light, behind the vehicle. The vehicle took off, straight for the interstate. We pulled alongside to take a look at him briefly, and it appeared he was holding the woman down below the window with his free arm. He spewed some expletives at us, and we called in to HCSO dispatch for units to intersect. We high speed chased him all the way from our county on I-75 south, to manatee county (a long ass drive away), maybe 40-50 miles or more. Giving mileage markers to the dispatcher the whole time. He told me they had 8 units on the way (LOL! this dude was gonna get run up on with a congo line of pure hate hahah). Myself and officer Vega were laughing our asses off. They had Tennessee plates, and the guy had tried to lose us by playing the "Im about to pull off on this exit...SYKE!" technique about 4 times. Finally after a long ass time, the first unit arrived and nearly passed him up, he pulled him over, and we pulled in a bit behind at an angle and used good cover out of Vega's new large Tundra truck. It was a felony stop, weapons drawn. 7 more units showed up, including a canine unit (the dog was going crazy). Every trucker and everyone else going by were stopped or slowing way down rubber necking (imagine driving to another state and in the middle of the night seeing 8 cop cars, 3 other vehicles, and many officers with guns drawn on a car on the side of the road). My LT gave a statement as to what he observed (Vega and I didn't see crap, just him holding her down in the car and our LT requiring assistance) 3 different times. Their captain followed us back to our location so we could play what happened for him from our DVR system, and burned him disks of what took place (it looked real rough, he was throwing her around like a rag doll).
Their captain and us sat around BSing for a while, talking about our mutual friend (my detective buddy who I did my internship with their agency back in the day), and shared war stories of getting maced, etc. And then called it a night. Atleast between last night, and tonight, it was a way fun way to get overtime pay <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
When I got into work today, My captain and LT both gave me crap like "How come EVERYTHING freaky that takes place here, happens to you, on your shift?!?!"...I spose since this is an absolute first also, I will hear about this as well. BTW Vega is 6'8 and 390 lbs (no those aren't typos) of mostly muscle, and i'm 5'11 and 200 lbs, and the dude was very skinny. If we would have personally witnessed him doing that to that female, he would have received a world class beat down, with extra special sauce. Times like these, even with CF, it feels great to be alive and helping out. From what I understand, it will more than likely be ruled a domestic, and he won't be charged due to the female not pressing charges (sad huh?), so it might all be for nothing...But just imagine if it would have been a serial killer with a kidnapped woman, imagine if it was a rape about to happen...That was someones wife/daughter/mom...Even though in the end it was violent codependent stupidity, you never know what you might be preventing. Kind of sucky, I haven't been involved in a full on kung fu fight in a while, it would have been especially fun having a 6'8 390 lbs ogre on my side in the fight <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
Two nights of back to back late night adrenaline = Can't sleep at all, and will be exhausted tomorrow.