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April 11th, 2025, Pleasant Prairie,
Wisconsin. Officers located a vehicle
that had fled from Winthrop Harbor,
Illinois. The vehicle then fled from
Pleasant Prairie Police.
He's taking off.
We're going north on Lake Shore from
91st.
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Speeds are 49. It's a male white driver.
I believe wearing a blue shirt.
A blue shirt. 49 miles an hour.
66 mph. Still north. 87 Place on Lake
Shore.
No traffic.
He's going to be coming back out on the
seventh B from 85th Street.
Speeds are about 60. A light traffic.
Going southbound on 7th A from 85th
Street.
Skates are above 60. Light traffic.
Traffic shielding.
He has a light bar on the top of his uh
cruise.
Our block here.
We're coming up to Sharon Road. Speeds
are about 50.
Blue red light. Sheran.
Still uh westbound. Austin, take over
the coms.
building
strongly.
Still
Continuing
on
traffic
on the road
right now coming up to station one
and 39. 91
now
we continue west through the service
traffic
runway. The ground
station
trans over. Start start fire.
Get your [ __ ] ass up.
Zero over.
block.
Copy 1050.
 Put your hands up.
Springrook,
are you okay inside?
Are you okay?
Are you okay?
Are you okay?
Put your hands up.
 Give me cover.
 Are
you okay?
He pitted himself on me.
 Occupy time
three. Um,
 not
going around. We're going to have pretty
here,
you guys. Okay.
Okay. I need you guys to crawl out the
back window one at a time.
Crawl out the back window,
you guys. Okay.
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I got
 We got dog. We got dog.
 We got
dog. We got dog. They're going to bite
you.
 Get out.
Out. And get on the ground. Get on the
ground. Get on the ground. Get on the
ground. On the ground.
 Stay there and
don't move.
Second person. Hands up. Hands up.
Get your hands up. They're crawling out
the window now.
 Significant injuries.
One calling out the back.
 Lay down.
 Lay
down flat. Okay. Sir, I wasn't driving.
I know. Lay down. Lay down.
 Lay down
flat. Okay. Hands. Hands wide out.
Put your handcuffs.
Keep coming.
 Crawl out. Put your
handcuffs for now. Okay.
Keep coming.
 Crawl out.
 Bring your hands
to your back. Okay. driver.
Call out.
 You got any weapons on you?
No.
 Okay. Don't move from here. Okay.
Hands up.
 Hey, get on the ground.
Call out.
 Call out.
Blue shirt was the driver.
There's one more. There's four people in
the car.
 Person crawling out.
Sir, go inside. Go inside.
 Go inside the
house. You've got
 We got five.
 [ __ ]
Christ.
 Occupy times five. Occupy times
five.
Call out.
Call out.
Keep your hands up. Green. Green jacket.
Put your hands out.
 Green jacket. Hand
out.
 Blue shirt was driver.
 Crawl out.
Crawl out.
Come this way. This way. On the ground.
Arms out. You crawl out.
What hurts?
Your side hurts. Crawl out.
Can you crawl out?
Can you crawl out?
 Put your arms out.
Hey
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18MPP. I need
 got to crawl, sir.
 Five
more units on scene.
What's the address?
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We got to start with this. Yeah.
I got cover. I got cover. You start
handcuffing.
Blue shirt. What hurt?
The driver was identified as Joshua
McCarthy, 38, of Kenosha, Wisconsin. The
following charges were filed after the
pursuit.
Fleeing and eluding an officer,
firstdegree recklessly endangering
safety, possession of drug
paraphernalia, possession of cocaine,
probation/parole
hold, firstdegree reckless injury,
injury by intoxicated use of vehicle,
discharging bodily fluid at an officer,
and operating a vehicle without a valid
license causing great bodily harm.
Additional municipal citations were also
issued.
At the time of this incident, he was on
a pre-trial release in Lake County for
an attempted obstruction and possession
of drug paraphernalia case out of Beach
Park. He was also on pre-trial release
in Lake County for possession of a
stolen vehicle and possession of a
controlled substance case out of Gurnie.
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Can I please lay on my back?
Help them in recovery.
Roll on your right side. Okay.
 Yes,
please.
 Hey, man. Can I sit you up?
 Are
you all right?
 I'll help you sit up if
you want to sit up.
 Do you want to sit
up?
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I got to roll you over, dude.
Joshua's bond was set at $75,000.
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