Dumb Criminal: Driver Tells Cops 'Catch Me if You Can,' Flees

Officer Brad Wubben was on patrol one night this week when he ran a driver’s license check on the registered owner of a vehicle and found that the driver had no valid driver’s license. Officer Wubben stopped the vehicle and the driver gave Officer Wubben his driver’s license. Officer Wubben returned to his squad car and confirmed on the squad computer that the driver’s license was cancelled.

Officer Wubben walked back up to the car and asked the driver to step out of his car as his driver’s license was not valid. The driver said, “catch me if you can” and sped away from the traffic stop.  Wubben followed a short distance and discontinued the pursuit as he still had the driver’s license of the fleeing driver.

Officer Wubben, in checking the area, found the subject’s car abandoned a few blocks away and Officer Wubben impounded the vehicle, pending forfeiture. The following morning, two LPD detectives went to the fleeing driver’s house and arrested him for numerous traffic charges, including fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle. It is unknown if they said, “caught you” when they made the arrest. The driver was placed in the Dakota County jail pending formal charges.