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A high-speed police chase of an alleged carjacker in Florida ended in a swamp, according the New York Post.
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Bodycam footage from the Port Orange Police Department shows officers confronting the accused, Ah’lijah Aman Mah’di Balk, 20, who was allegedly parked outside of a Daytona Beach apartment complex in a stolen car.
Footage shows that when one of the officers points a weapon at the vehicle, demands the suspect step out with his hands up and opens the passenger door, Balk instead backs the vehicle up, allegedly causing the door to knock the officer to the ground.
The officer gets up, yells and points his weapon at the suspect vehicle as it speeds away and police give chase in their cruisers with one attempting to cut it off at a dead-end road.
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Footage shows the suspect eventually losing control of the vehicle and stopping with officers surrounding him and telling him to surrender.
Balk once again refuses, jumps out of his car and decides to flee on foot as he runs into a wooded area and finds himself in a swamp.
An officer then tackles him in the water and two officers cuff him as they pull him out of the swamp.
Balk was charged with aggravated battery and aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence, fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement, grand theft motor vehicle, petit theft, criminal mischief and unlawful possession of another person’s ID.
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