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Calling all units, calling all units …
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A police pursuit that started in the parking lot of the 7/11 on Franklin Street late Thursday afternoon was reported to Quincy Quarry News by its primary Citizen Police Scanner Monitor.
It would appear that undercover Quincy Police Department Drug Control Unit officers in two different nondescript vehicles had been monitoring someone who when then approached by drug unit personnel took off in a van that had been reported as stolen.
Back-up was then requested by one of the Drug Control Unit officers and a handful of marked units rolled to assist in the pursuit.
Contemporaneously, the Quincy Police Chief took control of the pursuit over the radio after the van headed away from the scene and traveling through West Quincy.
How fast?
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The chief only properly asked for the speed of the van per standard operating procedure so as to gauge risk for the general public given a police chase and was advised that the van was traveling at no more than 25 miles per hour as two tires had gone flat for reasons not overhead.
With the van riding on two wheel rims and two tires, radio chatter noted that the van was sideswiping parked cars as it traveled erratically to Copeland Street and then onto 93 South via the Furnace Brook Rotary.
The Quincy Police Chief then advised the Quincy police cruisers in pursuit to end their pursuit per standard operating procedure once a couple of State Police entered the chase on 93.
The van continued on 93 to the Granite Street exit on 93 near the South Shore Plaza and then into the Blue Hills via Chickatabut Road.
Milton State Police Barracks
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Police radio chatter indicted that the careening van was sure to be crashing at any moment, however, the van’s driver did not crash until over a handful of miles later in the general vicinity of the Blue Hills Ski area near the Milton/Canton line and so apparently passed by the Milton State Police Barracks on Hillside Street as he fled.
The driver then fled the crash scene and along the way the State Police asked the Quincy Police if it could provide a K9 unit to assist in the pursuit of the now on foot van driver.
A Quincy K9 was made available, however, no word if the police fur missile found the fleeing van driver.
What Quincy Quarry News does know from one of its Milton contacts is that contemporaneous with the van crashing numerous police officers were out and about in Milton on foot and touting long rifles.
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