A car chase that started in Kansas City, Missouri, ended with an arrest Tuesday evening at South 78th and Kaw Drive in Kansas City, Kansas.
At one point a suspect drove the wrong way on Kaw Drive.
The chase started with the armed robbery of an individual at Linwood and Prospect in Kansas City, Missouri, around 5 p.m. Tuesday, said Kansas City, Missouri, police public information officer Darin Snapp. The suspect had a gun.
Kansas City, Missouri, police officers observed the suspect’s vehicle and chased it, according to the spokesman. At one point, near I-70 and Broadway in Kansas City, Missouri, the suspect’s vehicle sideswiped another vehicle, he said.
The chase went into Kansas City, Kansas, where the Kansas Highway Patrol took over the pursuit, which ended near South 78th and Kaw Drive, he said.
The suspect was taken into custody by troopers and the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department, he said. The Missouri police officers then went to the scene to identify the suspect.
The original description of the incident was a carjacking, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol, which is one of the reasons they became involved.
The Kansas Highway Patrol became involved in the chase after the suspect drove into Kansas on I-670, and troopers decided to employ a tactical vehicle intervention technique on Kaw Drive, said Trooper C. Suther, who was a passenger in the KHP car that did the vehicle intervention technique. The trooper’s vehicle approached the suspect’s vehicle from the side, started to merge over slowly, then touched the back fender and applied pressure until the suspect’s vehicle spun around, he said.
The officers considered using stop sticks on westbound I-70 near the railroad yard, but because traffic was heavy, they were unable to deploy them, he said.
Later, the suspect drove the wrong way in rush-hour traffic on Kaw Drive for a half-mile or less, he said.
After the tactical vehicle intervention, the troopers did a felony traffic stop, and gave the driver verbal commands that he complied with. The suspect was placed into custody without incident, he said.
There were no injuries in connection with the incident, according to Trooper Suther and the Kansas City, Missouri, police spokesman.