Nevada Highway Patrol officers pursued Michael, a 39-year-old fugitive wanted for child coercion and kidnapping, after he fled a truck stop in a semi-truck hauling window shades. Losing tires during the chase on I-11, Michael rammed the median before going off-road near Marker 2, where officers apprehended him alongside accomplices Tony and an injured female passenger. The incident highlights the extreme risks of evading justice for severe crimes, as Michael believed prison was worse than dying alone in the desert. [Automatically generated summary]
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Nevada Border Truck Stop00:04:15
On March 25th, 2025, license plate readers at the Nevada border flagged a semi-truck tied to two suspects with outstanding warrants for sexual assault charges towards children and sex trafficking.
It was unknown if anyone was actively being trafficked inside the semi-truck.
Nevada Highway Patrol responded to the truck stop where the semi-truck immediately fled the scene.
How are you gonna flee in a semi-I got one 10 in front of me?
I want to know if we're okay to pursue this.
I got one 10 in front of me.
And I'm gonna take up secondary.
We're going looks like he's about to go towards the El Dorado Pass, possibly gonna try to go southbound on I-11.
Cobby, we're getting on the I-11 now.
Henry 6200, we're southbound I-11.
I'll take over Tom on number four.
Hey, he's gonna lose one of his left rear tires.
If we're okay with it, I'll go past.
I'll get him ahead and I'll lay down some stopsticks.
Stop sticks.
No, there's another emergency road over here.
That's a permanent mile mark retention marker capacity.
Oh, he just tried.
He just put me off.
He just tried rabbit me.
89, 90 miles an hour, still light traffic.
Vehicle is into number two, southbound.
Just tried to ramming 820 off into the center median.
Henry 3094.
9394.
Henry 3094.
If you can get somebody to go through Boulder City and get on at Marker 2, we'll have to continue.
If not, back off.
Please notify Arizona DPS and also the dam police.
Henry 3094, there is no tempo funnel to fight Arizona.
Henry 4063, I'm coming around the lakeway.
I'll start heading that way right now from Marker 3.
Henry 3094 also has somebody hit towards the 95 in case he goes that route towards California police.
Get them stop sticks, Kevin.
Stop sticks.
Successful on the flight strips.
Vehicle continuing southbound to number one.
Henry 4153, notify Metro here.
Henry 41534.
Henry 6200, confirming you're on 95 or 11.
Okay, we're going I-11.
I'm marker 7.
Speeds of 74 miles an hour.
Still trying to wing lane.
Henry 4153 to 3094.
Do we have authorization to enter Arizona?
Oh.
Yes, you have authorization to enter Arizona.
He just lost the tread on the front right tire.
He's on the rim now.
He's forming rapidly.
He's warming off the road right.
Oh, it's already 52.
He's way off the road.
Crazy.
I begged now.
He actually thinks he can get away.
Arizona Tire Blowout Chase00:09:05
Put your hands up!
Put your hands out of the window so we can see them.
Take it easy on yourself.
Let us know you're alive.
Anybody in that truck?
Speak to us now.
Do you guys have any cover over there?
No, just rock here.
Okay.
Shadowing or moving?
He's just to the right of the mute.
There it is.
He's pumped it out the window.
Hey, you better let us see your hands when you're coming out, guy.
Hey, sir, let us see your hands, okay?
Let us know you're...
Are you injured?
Hey, sir, what's your name?
I see a foot behind the truck.
Yeah, he's kind of dangling there.
I got his right arm.
He's coming down.
Hey, guy.
Come out, face away from us.
Just come on out, guy.
Just make it easy on yourself.
Sir, just come on out.
There's no way for you to go here.
We'll get you some medical attentions.
Come on out.
Stay there, man.
Don't go anywhere.
You ready?
Sir, there's no way for you to go, man.
You're going to be in the middle of the desert.
Stop.
We got a helicopter coming and everything.
You're not getting away.
Just stop.
Don't move.
Face away from us.
Turn around.
Do it now.
Turn around.
Do it now.
On the ground now.
You're going to get tased.
You're going to get tased.
It's not going to feel good.
Get on the ground.
You're going to get tased.
Somebody else in the car.
Yep, we're here, Mark.
Put your hands on top of your head.
You okay?
Yep.
All right, you got him?
Yeah, I got her.
Yeah, you got me?
Okay.
Put your hands on your head.
All right, you just told me to fill out.
You're not here, still.
You just told me to fill out.
Yeah, got him up.
Thank you.
Anybody else in there?
Ready?
One, two, three.
There you go.
Turn around.
Walk up the hill.
A rattlesnake will come.
You don't have to kick your legs out, just sit.
Get you a little bit of air conditioning, all right?
Drink.
Got medical in that also.
Yeah, medical's coming.
They gotta check one of them.
Henry 6110.
We have a female that's still in the vehicle.
Where does it hurt?
We have a female adult that's also injured.
Just came out of the vehicle.
Need a 52.
Anybody else in the car with you?
You think you can walk?
You can hold my benefit.
You need to.
What's your name?
You say Tony?
You got it?
Put your butt backseat here.
Button.
What did you hit?
Steering wheel?
Yeah.
I was trying to make it to that bridge with the water.
I should have got I should have cut that guy off.
I knew when he got past me, I was why did that guy just pull up to me and start talking to me, you know?
What, the other cop?
That guy right there.
He just pulled up in the truck stop and just started wanting to talk to me.
You know why?
Because you got warrants.
If we can settle things at the lowest possible level, we're always going to try and do that first, you know?
If you're willing to talk to him and have a conversation, then we'll take that route.
But if you want to run from us, then we have to take this route.
He was locking me up.
There was no way I was getting that extra.
Alright.
Where were you at it originally?
I mean, it's where were you?
You're hauling window shades, you said?
Yeah.
Where were you going?
Utah.
Utah?
Okay.
Do you want to go to the hospital if they ask you?
Wherever you come here, Martin?
It's up to you.
Yeah.
Okay.
What do you want me to tell him?
Like for your head, or is there something else bothering you?
No, I think my leg's fed up too.
Which one?
Well, I think the right knee and the left leg.
Right knee, left leg.
How'd you guys know I was there?
Well, because you got warrants, man.
It shows up in the system.
And when you got license plates that are in your name or in somebody's name that's attached to you, you can see that.
But how did you know I was in?
At the truck stop?
Yeah.
We don't bring patrols all over the place.
Our cameras have license plate readers on them.
Oh, so they track when I came into the state?
Yeah, they can see your license plates and everything.
We did the walk button.
Yeah, come on.
Let's walk over here to my backpacks, alright?
If bus doesn't look like that, man, I pulled my shit off.
Hey, Biggie, you do me a favor.
I'm handcuffed.
Can you pull my shirt down?
Any cuts just on your hands and stuff like that?
Looks like you got a good knot on your hands.
Okay, you know when he went down in those rockets doing all that going over there.
I know.
It don't sound like the head sky.
I'm scared.
What are you scared of?
I don't know what's happening.
So it sounds like he does have a warrant up for his arrest, and that's why you're trying to make contact with him.
If that makes sense.
Goodbye.
Yeah.
What's up, sir?
Alright, not too bad.
This is Tony, his wife, for three years.
Said they were supposed to be turning themselves in, but we didn't make contact.
He talked to his lawyer this morning and just a little bit of shock right.
Yeah, I'm sure.
We got a female with a new seatbelt on.
You have a chance.
This is his wife.
Green 300 passenger seat.
She got pretty good head injuries.
About how old is she?
Ab 40?
1992?
32?
Just a head injury?
Minor cuts.
What a lot of people.
He's got some pretty good facial lacerations on the head and stuff.
I've been thinking of any other injuries, but he did say he was 97.
I don't know if he has any weapons in the truck.
Do you think somebody just run around?
Just let you know, it doesn't sound like you're going to be in any trouble, right?
So it's just.
Just gonna make sure you get the help you need, okay?
How long were you guys there at the truck stop for?
Just got there, and that's when we rolled up.
Were you guys fighting over the steering wheel at all, or anything like that, or did he purposely go off the road?
No, the tire went out.
Yeah.
And I know she's turning.
Yeah, the tire went out.
I got a speed mount passenger over here.
She was unrestrained in the front passenger seat, right?
What's going on today?
All right.
What's your first name?
I can't hear you.
Tony.
So were you seatbelted in the vehicle?
You didn't have a chance, okay?
Did you hit your head?
Did you go unconscious during that time?
Or do you remember everything?
Okay, gotcha.
So we're going to get you down to the hospital.
You want to get transferred to the hospital, right?
Are you having any pain right now?
Wear at on your head.
Right here?
Yep, you got a good knot right there.
Elbow?
You're still able to move everything?
Do we have any pain here?
No, look all the way to the left.
Any pain here?
No, all the way towards the right.
Any pain in the middle?
Down to your chest.
Any pain?
All right, look straight up.
Any pain?
Gotcha.
All right, you still don't know if you went unconscious or not.
You just know it all happened real fast, right?
In custody?
No.
No?
Okay.
You want me to take a few steps for me?
Go ahead, grab it in my hand.
Play it this way.
The driver, 39-year-old Michael, was wanted for coercing two children under the age of 15 into inappropriate activity.
He now faces additional charges, including kidnapping, assault on a protected person with a deadly weapon, disobeying a peace officer resulting in bodily harm, reckless driving with disregard for property or personal safety, duty upon damage to an unattended person or property, and obstructing a public officer.
The passenger, Tony, was previously charged with two counts of cruelty towards a child, but had since bonded out.
She faces no new charges relating to this case.
They remain.
Well, it don't sound like he getting out anytime soon.
All those additional charges.
That's crazy, man.
Desert Escape Attempt00:01:20
He thought he was going to get away in a semicruck.
I could see if you in like a low capacity.
If you had a Corvette, a Dodge Challenger.
Yeah, Mustang.
Four Mustang.
8.8 Hemi-liter.
Right?
It's a small car.
8.8 Hemi-liter.
Emmy, what?
8.8, 5.7 liter.
Emmy.
Right?
I can see you think about you're going to get away in that.
And then it's a small car.
So even if you do, even if you do lose the cops, they're still not going to see you 10 miles away because how big your vehicle is.
Right, right.
That doesn't make any sense.
And then he loses his tire.
He's like, nope, I'm not giving up.
I'm going to flip off off the side of the freeway and damn near kill both of us.
Yeah.
And then that wasn't enough.
I'm going to take off running in the hospital.
I'll see if I can start running out in the desert.
I'm big, fat, overweight.
My knees hurting.
I think I can make it.
Well, he's going to be.
He's a.
He knows what he's got.
His charges.
When he goes to prison, everybody's going to know it.
So he's like, man, I either got to do this or I'm going to die in there.
Yeah.
Crazy.
Either way, I'm going to die.
That's what he's thinking.
He's probably rationalizing, man.
I'm not going to die in prison.
I'm going to die out here in this desert.
Either die now or die later.
Yeah, I'd rather die out here in this desert all alone.