By Kendra Baker
Journal Inquirer, Manchester, Conn.
LEDYARD, Conn. — Police camera footage shows one of the steps law enforcement took this month to bring a high-speed chase involving a stolen police vehicle to an end, resulting in the arrest of a Rhode Island man.
Jared Remson, 27, of Pawtucket, R.I., was charged with reckless driving, engaging police in pursuit, failure to drive in the proper lane, first-degree larceny and interference with an arresting officer Jan. 4, after authorities say he stole a police vehicle in Rhode Island and led police on a pursuit that eventually ended in Preston.
Connecticut State Police said they were alerted around 2:30 a.m. that Remson was on Interstate 95 south crossing into the state from Rhode Island in a stolen police cruiser, and a pursuit ensued after troopers spotted him near Exit 89.
After taking the Exit 88 ramp to Route 117 in Groton, a state police report said Remson accelerated after spotting another state police vehicle and turned north onto Route 117.
State police said they activated their lights and sirens to stop Remson, but the stolen vehicle continued driving and exceeded 100 mph at times.
After being notified about the incident, state police said the Ledyard Police Department deployed stop sticks near the intersection of Route 117 and Route 2A.
Footage provided by police shows the stolen cruiser speed over the tire deflation device, seconds after which an officer moves it out of the path of a pursuing police vehicle.
State police said the stolen vehicle eventually slowed to a stop near the intersection of Route 2A and Harris Fuller Road in Preston, and Remson was taken into custody.
Body camera footage provided by the Ledyard Police Department shows a handcuffed and shirtless Remson, talking about things like head trauma and Elon Musk.
“I have head trauma that’s crazy,” Remson says at one point in the video before being asked if there’s anything in the stolen vehicle.
After telling police there’s an unused “glass smoking device” in the vehicle, Remson can be heard in the video saying he “was not going to get high” and “just wanted to get out of crooked (expletive) Providence, Rhode Island .”
As he’s led to a police vehicle, Remson started talking about something he calls “the big time place.”
“I knew that I was going to go to the big time place,” he said, according to the video. “I dyed my hair black so you wouldn’t be able to recognize me and I could just do this and just get to the big place and get Elon Musk to fix my head.”
After being taken into custody, police said Remson was initially held in lieu of $50,000 bond and arraigned at state Superior Court in New London on Jan. 6.
Court records show Remson — who remains held at Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center in Montville on a combined bond of $70,000, according to the state Department of Correction’s inmate database — has a hearing on the five charges stemming from the Jan. 4 incident and a hearing on a warrantless extradition arrest charge scheduled for Feb. 4.
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