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On September 8th, 2024, officers with
the Santa Fe Police Department in New
Mexico were dispatched to a local
McDonald's in reference to a stolen Jeep
Cherokee. What the suspect didn't know
was that he was being tracked by the
owner via an Apple Air Tag. But that
didn't stop him from turning the last
day of Santa Fe's largest celebration,
Fiesta to Santa Fe, into complete
tragedy.
Vehicles fleeing north St. Francis.
Okay, I'm just going to 22. He's already
starting to get a little reckless here.
So you go to the police.
He continued northbound St.
Francis. Looks like state police just
engaged. Actually that looks like
maybe Lupe.
I guess he went down.
Did you see a car following us through
here?
Um at 210 East
Street in the park.
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white sharking. It's going to be closer
to Marcy Street. We don't have a cross
right now. And we
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Check down.
Hi, this is Officer Gonzalez. Are you
guys here at the McDonald's? Yeah, we
are trying to get a copy. It's a hell of
a morning. Uh, okay. Uh, can you are you
Oh, are you in the drivethru? Uh, no.
I'm right here. Can you meet me outside?
We have officers pursuing the vehicle,
so we're just trying to get updated.
Yeah. Yeah, you're good. Okay. I'm
walking up to a police officer. Perfect.
That's me.
How we doing? Yes.
Sorry. Do you mind if I leave? Yeah, of
course.
Did he already come through there?
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He's coming down power.
Any What kind of stickers are on the
back? Um there it's a racing sticker.
It's basically it's like a Spartan
face mask on it and then there's
actually a racetrack on it, but you
might be able to tell that.
All right, I'll be coming on elevator.
Just stay close to your building right
now. Spikes with some cover hard cover.
No updated ping from the 210 East Marcy
Street. Does it Is there a way I can
like update the ping or is it just every
couple minutes? Right. It's whenever
Yeah. So, it's basically whenever it's
next to a an iPhone. So, that's how the
Apple tags work. We have a description
of the driver in case he takes off. Were
you guys able to identify the driver or
No. Oh well. Um I don't know who the
driver was, but he dropped off a woman
right over here when we were watching
them. They looked homeless to me. Yeah.
He's advising they looked homeless. Um
at least the woman did. Yeah. How many
people were in it? It was just two. It
was him and then he dropped off a woman
over here.
Get off the
road. Hello.
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Get off the road.
Where's he at?
He's coming this way.
Yeah, it's crazy. Did it have decals on
the hood? Did it have decals on the
hood? No.
Negative. Okay. No other decals or
wrecks or anything like that, right? No,
it's not wrecked. Okay. You guys didn't
report it this morning, though, right?
Yeah, we did. We reported it last night
at Did they give you a case number for
it or anything like that? Not that I'm
aware of. Just going eastbound
on uh and you saw the stickers on the
back and everything like that. Yeah,
it's definitely my car. Okay. Yeah,
100%. Okay. Um cuz we don't have it as
stolen right now, so we're not sure what
happened.
They said he's uh Alamita and Palace is
what they said.
Is that all in a good location or try
not to touch the vehicle? I haven't seen
it. It's still pinging in your guys'
downtown area, but he's getting
notifications here on St. Francis as
well. Last one was
Elam like a Trackhawk. It's got a loud
exhaust. Did they have a key or anything
to it? No, the key was in the vehicle.
I couldn't find it last night. I was
like, h it'll be all right for one
night. Obviously not. And it was in it.
Okay. Couldn't find it when I left it.
Yeah.
They followed him up by the other side,
right?
Yeah. I don't know what unit that was,
but then he's he's hit out somewhere.
Yeah. They were on his ass, man.
And unfortunately, we can't pursue
stolen vehicles, so be clear.
Yeah. So, but we have all officers here
cuz we hope that with so many of us
here, they'll dump what happens.
Yeah. Has a has a V8 in it. Oh, yeah. I
know. There it
went. I believe it just passed palace on
PVP.
north. North.
Hold up. Hold up.
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Never mind.
No, that wasn't it.
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I hate the compassing of Santa Fe
streets. It's bad. I got a uh Jeep on it
and I would meet up with a Colorado
University place.
No, it's got 28. It's New Mexico. We're
good. I can say this. He's not going to
try to ram anything.
Um because he's we already saw him. So
we were sitting there at the start of
the parade route and he passed right by
us and went down
Guadalupe. So he's he's going to try to
get away. He's if he rammed something,
we'll charge him for it. But I don't
think it'd be like intentional. You know
what I mean? Yes. Hey, until they call
this considering that it looks like he's
around here, just stay here cuz so y'all
don't get hit by him or something cuz he
was driving a little nuts. Okay.
And you too, Joe. Oh, thank you. If she
needs
help, I I I fully anticipate Jennifer
being the one throwing in all the help.
Damn. All right. She used to wrestle.
Did you wrestle?
Not professionally. No, but we're not
talking about blanket wrestling either.
No, they don't.
I'm going to go cruise around a little
bit. I told them just to stay there
considering that he might be down here.
Yeah. I don't want them to get hit. I
don't want you to get hit either, but
And I told them if if he comes by here
and you need help, just go to help you
out. Okay. All right. Just Yeah. Let me
know if you guys need anything else.
We're going to be looking for this all
day. So, thank you so much. Appreciate
that. Right. Hopefully. I know. I hope
we find it right away. And luckily
though, it's Fiestas, so we have every
officer in our department in service
right now. Nice. So, there's probably
usually there's like five or six of us.
Right now, there's probably like 40 nice
in the downtown area. So, I would love
the archives. Yes, I think we should be
good.
For the next 30 minutes, the suspect
continued to elude police, most likely
circling downtown Santa Fe when he was
spotted again. He was northwest of Po de
Paralta and heading straight for Fiesta
to Santa Fe. Starting to accelerate now.
Should be a Griffin.
Too many pedestrians in that area. It's
too
long. And I am not pursuing. I am not
pursuing.
All doors. PB1 open.
Yeah. Do you want to
open doors open?
I read a speed just passed me. Heading
towards downtown. I'm not pursuing.
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in the now.
Get out the radio. Should be on sandball
now.
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the driver of my vehicle was wearing
brand
new that way. I thought I heard a gall
and all that. There's a
driving a black SUV that way.
He's down on the pause area.
Which way did that car go? Did y'all see
it? The white jeep.
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Did he go through here? Yeah, he went
through here and he went left.
Stay off the radio. You just went down
wrongway Sheridan.
We have lights on. It's going east on
Marcy's toward back toward PDP. East
toward it. It
is coming down behind the library.
Stop.
Go. Stop.
Can I hear that? Oh my god.
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Coming through
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coming. Okay.
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You're good.
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Okay. Those guys over there.
Okay.
No, they're they're good.
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Where's the person who the car?
Can I shut my baby? Sure enough. Yeah,
go ahead. Checking business, sir.
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Where you
at? Get on the car. Get on the
ground. Get out your pocket. Out your
pocket.
We're getting advice that 53 53 was the
vehicle that was hit. The
unit left
Someone has an open mic. Yeah, I know.
It's what? I have an open mic from the
unit. Are all units
for all units? Do we have anyone on
Twitter?
the one driving.
Where are they? Can any
units are here?
Damn
it. Where are they?
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Damn it.
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So lay on Henry since everything else is
tied up. Canyon East Palace. We have the
suspect bleeding units disabled.
East Palace
Canyon 103 boys. So we can go back to
that.
Yeah. GSW to your shoulder.
GSW to the shoulder. I'm
good. Direct AP.
Going to hurt for your own good, man.
It's going to hurt. All
right. You have to stop the bleeding.
Okay. I'm sorry, bro. She touched my
head and made me have another uh
What is his status? Do we have any
injuries of our guys here? No, I dropped
the bike intentionally cuz had him at
gunpoint.
Under
arrest. Are you gonna fight with us?
Don't fight with us. Go with them. No,
we'll take What are you doing now?
Two wounds.
All right. Where's your unit at? Leave a
key. Oh, it went through the door. I
don't think so.
So I wasn't coming through at all on the
radio. Everything was all jumbled up.
You were all right. I saw you. Well,
somebody was somebody was mic was caught
up. So you know what? It might have been
the motor. My motor again. Yeah, there
was definitely a motor. You can hear it.
Yeah. Yeah. Then that was me. That
switch I'm waiting on it to be replaced.
But no injuries whatsoever. No injuries.
They cancelled the parade. It's
canceled. Pat sent it over there. Okay.
I didn't hear that. Yeah, that's that
over the air. We're not doing the
parade.
So, no injuries reported with our guys
over here. Okay. Basically, the only you
have was or when you got rammed, but
he's okay. And then what injuries do you
have? This just right here. Okay. The
other day, the incident was just a red
mark. Now, it's now the progression of
the of the injury.
What's up? Hi.
Where you want to? Let's do it
downstairs so we don't have to take him.
We'll try it.
Yeah. Let the interviewer.
Justin.
Hey, Justin. I'm Detective the bus. Can
you Can you hear me?
Do you want to
talk?
No. I'm the detectctor that's going to
be handling this case. I was told that
you wanted to have a conversation, but
not answering
me. Yes. No, you
do. Okay. How you feeling, man?
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Yo,
Justin, Grenada, talk to me, man. I'm
I'll just I'll have to
go. No.
He's out of it. He's out of it, dude.
He's not going to want to, you know,
he's standing. The suspect, identified
by New Mexico State Police as Justin
Jimenez, was taken to Christa St.
Vincent Regional Medical Center to
undergo treatment for his gunshot
wounds. He was later released and booked
into Santa Fe County Jail. He was
charged with four counts of aggravated
battery upon a peace officer, aggravated
fleeing a law enforcement officer
causing injury, possession of a stolen
vehicle, reckless driving, failure to
obey traffic signs, leaving the scene of
an accident, failure to give immediate
notice of an accident, and driving with
no driver's license. A grand jury found
sufficient evidence to prosecute Justin
and the case was moved to the first
judicial district where account of
criminal damage to property exceeding
$1,000 was added to his list of charges.
Midwest Safety independently verified
that Justin was transferred to the Santa
Fe County Adult Detention Facility where
he is currently held without bond.
According to court documents, Justin was
previously charged in a multitude of
cases. Most of these cases were
dismissed by the prosecutor due to lack
of evidence or because the prosecutor
failed to show up to court. However, six
weeks before Fiesta to Santa Fe, Justin
plead guilty to burglary of a vehicle
and lararseny and was ordered to serve 2
years of probation. As a result of his
actions during Fiesta to Santa Fe,
Justin attended a probation violation
hearing where he denied violating his
probation. Currently, Justin awaits a
pre-trial conference scheduled for July
3rd, 2025. As a result of the four
separate instances of officers shooting
at Justin during the pursuit, eight
Santa Fe police officers and one Santa
Fe County Sheriff's Deputy Chief were
placed on administrative leave per
departmental policy. According to local
reporting, the Santa Fe County Sheriff's
Deputy Chief and three city police
officers were cleared to return to
active duty in early February. However,
their actions are still under
investigation by New Mexico State
Police. They will present their findings
to the first judicial district
attorney's office who will decide
whether the shootings were justified. No
additional information was readily
available for the other five city
officers who were placed on leave.
Justin Jimenez is innocent unless proven
guilty in a court of