POMPANO BEACH, Fla. — Three men were taken into custody after a police chase that ended in Pompano Beach on Thursday, authorities confirmed on Friday. And they now say it all started with a kidnapping at a McDonald’s.
Authorities arrested Tracey Ross, 30, along with Lamar Perry and Timothy Brown, both 18, after the chase ended with one of the suspects slamming an SUV into a traffic light pole on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Investigators said Ross took a man’s phone off a table at the McDonald’s at 11200 State Road 84 in Davie and demanded that the victim “get into their vehicle in order to get his phone back.”
Davie police said after the men drove the 30-year-old victim to the 700 block of Northwest Ninth Avenue in Fort Lauderdale, the victim was “was forced out of the vehicle and was physically struck.”
“He fled, stopped a person in the area and called 911 to report that he was kidnapped from Davie,” a Davie Police Department spokesperson said.
The men then fled to Pompano Beach after Fort Lauderdale police found the vehicle, authorities said.
Perry’s aunt, Vicky Perry, spoke to Local 10 News, expressing shock at her nephew’s arrest.
She said he called her in the middle of the chase.
“He called me crying saying, ‘Auntie we’re on a high-speed chase,’” Vicky Perry said. “I kept screaming, yelling, telling him to stop. I’m crying, and he just would not stop. I had my nephew’s location. I followed my nephew’s location. By the time I got there, they had already got him.”
She added, “Him being on that side of the town, (where) he knows nobody over there, is pretty strange to me.”
Brown’s mother spoke in court.
“I’ve never seen my son get in trouble or do anything like this,” she said. “I don’t know who he was with and, like, what happened. So I’m just like, I’m still in shock.”
All three were facing kidnapping charges as of Friday.
Several juveniles were also charged in the case.
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