Video: Pickup truck driver leads police on chase, ‘drinking beer as he stopped’

A man who allegedly stole a vehicle, refused a sobriety test and led police on a chase was booked into jail Tuesday.WOFL-TV reported the man “stopped, holding two full beer cans out the window” as police approached. “Drinking beer as he stopped,” a voice says in a police body camera video. Video showed him extending his hands out of the truck’s window to surrender, eventually dropping both cans to the ground. Justin Smith, 27, of Houston, faces several charges, including grand theft of a motor vehicle, fleeing at a high rate of speed and refusal to take a sobriety test. He was scheduled for court appearances on Thursday and Oct. 23.

A man who allegedly stole a vehicle, refused a sobriety test and led police on a chase was booked into jail Tuesday.




WOFL-TV reported the man “stopped, holding two full beer cans out the window” as police approached.

“Drinking beer as he stopped,” a voice says in a police body camera video.

Video showed him extending his hands out of the truck’s window to surrender, eventually dropping both cans to the ground.

Justin Smith, 27, of Houston, faces several charges, including grand theft of a motor vehicle, fleeing at a high rate of speed and refusal to take a sobriety test.

He was scheduled for court appearances on Thursday and Oct. 23.