Police: Armed carjacking leads to police chase that ended in Miami Beach

Police still searching for three others who bailed out of BMW

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Cellphone video captured part of a police chase overnight that ended in Miami Beach.

According to Miami-Dade police, officers responded to reports of a carjacking late Monday night in the 15000 block of Southwest 60th Street.

The victim told officers that she was arriving home from BT’s Gentlemen’s Club in her silver Honda Accord when a white BMW pulled into her driveway behind her.

The woman told police that a man, later identified as Reno Louige, 20, got out of the car armed with an AK-47 and demanded her property.

(Miami-Dade Corrections & Rehabilitation)

Police said Louige grabbed the victim’s bag from around her shoulder and tried to take her chains from around her neck.

He then snatched her cellphone from her hand as a couple other people stayed in the BMW, his arrest report stated.

According to the report, one of the unidentified suspects then entered the victim’s car and took off while Louige got into the driver’s side of the BMW and drove off, as well.

Police said both vehicles were spotted by officers a short time later and a chase ensued.

Authorities said the person who jumped into the victim’s vehicle abandoned the car in the 1400 block of Northwest 26th Avenue in the City of Miami and then jumped into the BMW.

At some point, three unidentified suspects bailed out of the vehicle and Louige continued fleeing from police before crashing the car near the Welcome to Miami Beach sign, authorities said.

Police said he was taken to Mount Sinai Medical Center after complaining of injuries before being booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

No one else has been detained at this time.

The BMW was towed away from the scene Tuesday morning.

Louige appeared in court Tuesday afternoon and was ordered held without bond as he was out on a felony bond prior to his arrest.

Anyone with further information is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.


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