A traffic stop that began with a fake paper tag turned into a fight for an officer’s Taser in the woods.
Dramatic body camera video shows the moment a suspect got his hands on it.
The officer was on his own when he found one way to end the struggle, Channel 2 Gwinnett County Bureau Chief Matt Johnson reports.
When the pursuit came through a Gwinnett County neighborhood, the officer had to ram into the suspect car to stop it. From there the man took off into the yard.
“I’ve got him on the ground. He’s got a hold of my taser,” the officer says on bodycam video.
It started late on April 7 when an officer tried to pull over a car near Norcross. The driver took off instead on Reddington Lane.
Police say he yanked the wheel hard, trying to make the woman in the passenger seat swap places with him.
The street dead-ended, and the woman tried to get out.
Police say the driver, Edward Briones-Revolorio, kept dragging her back inside. When she fell from the car, officers say he drove off without checking if she was clear.
The officer then hit the car hard enough to stop it.
Briones-Revolorio ran into a yard with the officer right behind him. A Taser shot missed in the trees, and the two hit the ground fighting over it.
The officer pinned him alone in the dark until backup arrived.
The officer told backup the suspect clawed for the Taser, so he popped the battery out and hurled it away.
The 28-year-old suspect now faces 11 charges, including false imprisonment, fleeing for a felony, and forgery over the fake tag.
The officer walked away unhurt. The suspect though will remain in the Gwinnett jail without bond.
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