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Man held after leading police on wild chase
By Times Staff
Published August 3, 2006
TAMPA - Tampa police apprehended a man early Wednesday morning who is suspected of leading Pinellas sheriff's deputies on a cross-bay chase that ended in a three-car collision on Swann Avenue. Jeffrey L. Washington, 25, of Tampa was being held without bail in the Hillsborough County Jail, charged with fleeing to elude police, leaving the scene of a crash, grand theft of a motor vehicle and related charges. The incident began Tuesday night when Pinellas deputies, using their new high-tech license plate scanners, spotted a stolen Chevrolet Impala and began pursuing it in a chase that took them into Tampa. Along the way, the stolen car rammed two patrol cars before evading the officers around Kennedy Boulevard at the Howard Frankland Bridge, according to Tampa police. Tampa officers were called into the chase, and shortly after 11 p.m. the car turned up in a three-car crash on Swann Avenue near Memorial Hospital. Illinois man treated after nearly drowning A 38-year-old Illinois man nearly drowned at North Beach in Fort DeSoto Park Wednesday afternoon after getting caught in a current. Jeffrey Maddox was at the beach with a friend and family members when he decided to swim the half mile to a nearby island, said Lt. Rick Feinberg, spokesman for the St. Petersburg Fire Department. On the way back, he got caught in a current. He struggled against it and was pulled to safety, conscious but disoriented. Maddox was taken to Bayfront Medical Center by air transport for treatment of near drowning and exhaustion.
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