CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Police have taken three people into custody following a high-speed pursuit through the streets of southeast Charlotte Friday morning.
Officers said that around 11:20 a.m. they received a stolen vehicle tag reader hit on a gray Honda Accord at the intersection of Albemarle Road and North Sharon Amity Road.
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Police pulled the car over and as an officer was getting out of his cruiser, the suspect backed into the officer's door, striking the officer.
The officer was OK and police called in the CMPD helicopter to keep the vehicle in sight, still not chasing the car at that point.
Officers followed the driver along several streets, including Providence Road, Randolph Road, Sardis Road and Sardis Road North.
At one point, the suspect was stuck in heavy traffic and stopped. The driver put the Honda in reverse, striking an unmarked police unit that had pulled up behind him.
That's when CMPD initiated a pursuit.
Chopper 9 Skyzoom flew over the scene and could see police cruisers behind the vehicle as the car weaved dangerously in and out of traffic, sometimes driving on the wrong side of the road.
Chopper 9 watched as the suspect skidded to a stop in the front yard of a home on Barcliff Drive, hitting the house, and ran into an apartment complex on Farm Pond Lane.
A short time later, officers emerged from the building with the man in handcuffs.
Police also took two passengers in the stolen car into custody.
No names have been released and police said nobody was hurt.
Gwendolyn Ardrey had reality on her TV turned into drama in her front lawn of her home on Barcliff Drive.
"I was hysterical,” she said. “I mean, I was hysterical to see something like that."
Ardrey's son held her for support as she talked about the police chase that ended on her steps.
"I just didn't think it was going to happen here in my yard", she said. "These are things that you just see on TV."
That's how she first found out about the chase.
She and her husband watched the hair-raising chase on Channel 9.
"Then all of sudden my husband said, 'There, they are right there in the yard,'" Ardrey said.
The 16-year-old driver, Theodore Gregory, had already got out of the car by the time they slammed the front door shut.
Ardrey said she saw police arrest a man and a woman who stayed in the car.
"I looked right at them," she said.
She said the woman appeared to be scared, shaken from the white-knuckle ride.
The car crushed a corner of the house.
"Me and my husband bought a house 20 years ago here and we never had no problem like that," neighbor Hermina Mattocks said.
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