By Tatum Todd
oregonlive.com
PORTLAND, Ore. — Police have launched aerial footage and dashcam video of the 19-year-old driver who allegedly fled an tried site visitors cease over the Thanksgiving weekend, careened by the streets of Portland in a Ford Mustang and hit a automotive head-on, injuring the opposite driver.
The accused driver — Jeffery Hamilton Baker — now additionally faces extra prices in reference to a road takeover in Northeast Portland three days earlier, on Thanksgiving Day, when he allegedly struck and injured a pedestrian police initially weren’t capable of find.
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Police arrested Baker on Sunday after recognizing him doing donuts and burnouts close to Southeast 2nd Avenue and Alder Street, police mentioned. Court data state that one other particular person, later recognized as Nathan Barnes, was hanging out of the window of the automotive.
When an officer tried to drag him over, Baker sped west on Southeast Alder Street, prompting police to name of their surveillance aircraft to trace him from the air, courtroom data present.
The newly launched footage from Portland police reveals the aircraft’s footage of the driving force — who police recognized as Baker — swerving previous dozens of automobiles and weaving out and in of oncoming site visitors. Baker additionally recorded his personal dashcam video of the incident. In components of the video that police launched, the digital camera’s built-in speedometer reaches 86 mph, and a passenger who was using with Baker on the time later informed police that the Mustang hit speeds of as much as 100 mph.
Court data and dashcam footage present that Baker evaded police for roughly 18 minutes earlier than an officer tossed a spike strip in entrance of the Mustang.
Dashcam footage then reveals the automotive working by a crimson gentle and hitting a Toyota Corolla. Court data state that the affect knocked the Corolla into one other automotive, and police mentioned that emergency responders took the Corolla driver to the hospital with non-life-threatening accidents.
Baker and his passenger fled the crash on foot, however police caught them shortly afterwards, courtroom data state. When police interviewed Baker, they seen that he was slurring his phrases and smelled of alcohol, courtroom data allege.
He later mentioned that he’d been consuming whiskey, courtroom data present.
He faces prices of third-degree assault, failing to carry out the duties of a driver to injured individuals, fleeing police, reckless endangerment, reckless driving and DUII within the Sunday incident, courtroom data present.
Baker can also be accused of a hit-and-run throughout a road takeover on Thanksgiving, and he’s set to be arraigned on Thursday afternoon on extra prices of third-degree assault and failing to carry out the duties of a driver to an injured particular person in reference to that incident, police mentioned.
Police informed The Oregonian /OregonLive on Tuesday that the lady he allegedly hit left the scene they usually didn’t find her on the time.
On Thursday, police mentioned she noticed media stories about Baker and got here ahead.
Baker fled the scene after the alleged Thanksgiving hit-and-run, however police recognized him by social media and later tried to arrest him at his dwelling, police mentioned.
But Baker was nowhere to be discovered, and he didn’t flip up till Sunday, when an officer noticed him Southeast 2nd Avenue and Alder Street, police mentioned.
Court data present that Baker was beforehand convicted thrice in three months earlier this 12 months – of rushing in September, reckless driving in August and rushing and careless driving in June.
Court data additionally present that his driver’s license was suspended till 2034 on the time of Sunday’s incident.
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