Crime & Safety
Car Chase Through Clearwater Ends With Arrest in Tampa
A car chase that led authorities from northeast St. Petersburg through Largo, Clearwater and into Tampa, and included suspect running over a foot of an officer ends in an arrest of a recently released inmate.
This afternoon, a Tampa man led police on a car chase through three different Pinellas communities, including Clearwater, with the chase ending in Tampa and the arrest of a recently released state prison inmate.
Pinellas County Sheriff's Office states that Joshua B. Jackson, 27, of the 300 block of 302 East Wellington St. in Tampa, was arrested and charged with one count each of aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer, aggravated fleeing and eluding, driving while license suspended along with several unspecified traffic violations.
At roughly 3 p.m., police stopped Jackson at Ulmerton Road and 38th Street North for not wearing a seat belt. When Pinellas County Sheriff's Deputy Jose Camacho approached Jackson in his 2009 Dodge Charger, Jackson raced from the scene and in doing so ran over one of Camacho's feet.
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Deputies pursued Jackson from St. Petersburg through parts of Largo and Clearwater before catching up to him in the Rocky Point area off the Courtney Campbell Causeway on the Hillsborough side of Tampa Bay.
Jackson was arrested without further incident. Camacho, Pinellas County authorities say, was not injured despite having his foot run over.
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Jackson notified authorities he was recently released from Florida State Prison on early inmate release status. He bolted from the scene originally for fear he would be sent back to prison.
