Gwinnet County police in Georgia found themselves in a unique low-speed chase March 23, after they commissioned a wheel loader operator to help capture a man who had stolen a wheel loader.
The pursuing loader operator not only managed to catch up to the alleged thief, but he flipped the loader over so police could arrest the man.
The whole crazy incident was caught on the officer’s dash cam. The video is posted at the end of this story.
Here’s how it all unfolded, starting at 11 a.m. at a waste management business on Corley Road in Norcross, according to police and the video:
When the officer arrived, Eddie Sanchez was driving around the property on a 30-ton Volvo L180H wheel loader with a large bucket on the front. Sanchez, 38, of Delaware had been fired in September from the business and had shown up once several days before to hop in a wheel loader and drive it around, but he didn't drive it off the property on that occasion.
The officer spoke to two employees at the site March 23.
“Any idea what he’s doing?” the officer asked.
