On Friday, October 21st, at approximately 5:44 PM, I was performing highway patrol duties on the entrance ramp to I-85 south from Pleasant Hill Rd. During this time, I observed a silver BMW occupied by one male driver who was not wearing his seatbelt. To investigate further, I activated my emergency lights and sirens to indicate to the driver that he was being stopped. The vehicle had a Georgia License Plate number of TEJ1512. The vehicle slowed down and continued to drive for a short distance. I repositioned my patrol vehicle to the left driver's side-view mirror, giving the driver another angle to see my flashing blue lights. The vehicle then pulled over and stopped on the right shoulder. Once stopped, I exited my patrol vehicle and saw the vehicle's brake lights activated. The driver began speeding away recklessly on the right shoulder away from the traffic stop. After returning to my patrol vehicle, I radioed to dispatch that I was in pursuit and provided my location and identifying information of the fleeing vehicle. While the driver attempted to flee, there were numerous moving violations observed. The driver recklessly operated the motor vehicle at high rates of speed, all while failing to maintain lane, drove along the left shoulder, followed too close to vehicles, improperly changed lanes, and aggressively intimidated other motorists, among other violations, while increasing its speed. I kept enough distance between my patrol vehicle and the fleeing vehicle to avoid presenting an additional risk to the motoring public, allowing the traveling public enough time to react to the hazard posed by the fleeing vehicle. On approach to the Indian Trail Lilburn exit ramp, I could see road debris thrown around the roadway on the right shoulder by the fleeing vehicle. As I got close to the exit ramp, a motorist told me which direction the fleeing vehicle went; the road debris was also used to track the direction of travel used by the fleeing vehicle. The fleeing vehicle appeared to have lost a tire just before getting to the Indian Trail Lilburn traffic light. This equipment failure caused the vehicle to become disabled. The driver then stopped behind another motorist in the right-turning lane. Seeing that the vehicle was stopped, I positioned my patrol vehicle against the driver-side door. This was used to obstruct the driver's ability to escape by use of the driver's door. Once my patrol vehicle stopped, the driver rolled his driver window down and placed both hands outside the vehicle. This allowed me to visualize better what was going on inside the vehicle. I exited my patrol vehicle, unholstered my department-issued weapon, and began scanning the vehicle for other occupants while watching the driver. During scanning, I had enough view to confirm single occupancy and approached the vehicle to apprehend the driver. As I approached the vehicle, I could see the driver's hands, but he began rolling the driver's windows back up and showed both his hands. He kept his hands up as I instructed him to roll the windows down. He did not comply with this request. Therefore, I began attempting to break the window so that he could be apprehended. Upon seeing this, the driver rolled his window back down and kept his hands up. I instructed him to crawl out the window, to which he complied. While crawling out, I took control of his left hand, holstered my duty weapon, and assisted him out of the window. He was then assisted to the ground, placed in handcuffs, and searched for weapons. By this time, Trooper Edgar Bellorin (#287) had arrived on the scene to assist. When the driver was asked for his identification, he replied that he did not have one. Trooper Bellorin then took his name and date of birth and used them to identify him in GCIC. The GCIC query returned a matching result. He was identified as Jovani Navarrete-Nino. To confirm this identity, dispatch was asked to obtain a photo of Mr. Navarrete-Nino. They were able to obtain a matching photo, which also matched the appearance of Mr. Navarrete-Nino. His vehicle was towed by Willard's towing. No further questioning was done while Mr. Navarrete-Nino was in custody. He was transported to the Gwinnett County Detention Center and released to jail personnel. Warrants were taken out for Mr. Navarrete-Nino. They are attached to the report for reference.

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