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Police canine track after suspect flees near Blaine and StevensElkhart IN

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E Blaine Ave & Stevens Ave, Elkhart, IN 46516

According to the dispatch call, police conducted a pursuit and canine tracking after a suspect fled near the area of Blaine Avenue and Stevens Avenue in Elkhart. A red shoe was found on the roadway indicating the suspect was barefoot. A perimeter was set around Blaine, Main, and Lusher streets to contain the suspect.

Audio|Heard on: Elkhart IN Law Dispatch Group Calls
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03:53
Transcript:
00:00
I'm not sure if we were tracing the footsteps that the subject I chased made sure he didn't throw something.
00:07
531-4-0-0. 5-3-1-9.
00:13
Was Adam 290 didn't attempt to track?
00:18
Affirmative.
00:22
Simple. Can you advise which way and where you want a perimeter?
00:28
The perimeter, where he's going to go east, we're going to set a perimeter in that direction.
00:35
Simple.
00:36
Anybody available?
00:39
Head to the east for a perimeter.
00:43
All right, I can take that where you need the perimeter side of that.
00:49
Crack a couple blocks north of Blaine off the Main Street and then down to Lusher Avenue.
00:58
Town floor.
01:01
Units on perimeter be advised the one subject that ran from around 519 and I did drop a 63.
01:10
3906.
01:11
Am 09.
01:13
4704 in the other description of the drug.
01:19
1023 Blaine Avenue and Stevens Avenue reference EPD signal 46 7 canine track.
01:27
10 clothing.
01:30
Okay 10.
01:32
Clothing Clothing.
01:35
Double 4.
01:41
4 shutting for ab-tnaty on EPA frequency.
01:44
The guy went east and he
01:46
to like northeast or southeast.
01:51
In the video, he's just run straight east, well, that north side of sidewalk.
01:56
Yes.
01:58
Come here.
02:01
Tom.
02:02
12R 531.
02:04
Go ahead.
02:06
We're going to begin the track with Adam 309.
02:10
Next.
02:13
Head in.
02:16
Um,
02:18
I'm Blaine.
02:21
10.
02:23
445 L will be at Morton Capital. 495-30s.
02:25
10.
02:26
490L current.
02:28
Good.
02:30
513 has traffic for you.
02:33
Good.
02:35
What seat was your 1095 in the vehicle when it came out?
02:41
I'm not sure.
02:44
(number withheld).
02:48
Go ahead.
02:50
Tracks between 1828 and 1822,
02:53
and I also have a red shoe in the roadway, so one subject is going to be barefoot.
02:58
The red shoe is going to belong to our subject.
03:01
No.
03:03
3531.
03:05
Go ahead.
03:07
Continuing tracks, uh,
03:10
in the alleyway northbound between Morehouse and Stevens.
03:17
474.4.40.
03:21
You're going to have an ISD unit on Indiana between Prairie and Steven.
03:28
Okay, I'm the same thing still.
03:33
Step 420, signal 83.
03:38
Okay, what were the description of the other subjects?
03:42
Only descriptions I got were males in all black clothing.
03:47
One had reflective strikes on their pants.
03:51
474-513, where's that you at?

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E Blaine Ave & Stevens Ave, Elkhart, IN 46516

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Incident Timeline

  1. K9 track initiated at Blaine and Stevens
  2. Pursuit continues westbound on Indiana Avenue and southbound on Stevens Street
  3. Pursuit turns southbound on Main Street
  4. Pursuit through multiple intersections
  5. Suspect description and speed update
  6. Vehicle continues eastbound on Franklin Street
  7. Pursuit initiated near State Road 33

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