High-Speed Car Chase With Toddler in Car in Fair Oaks: Police

FAIRFAX CITY, VA — A suspected counterfeiter fled from police Monday in a high-speed car chase with a 2-year-old child and the child's pregnant mother in the car, according to Fairfax County Police.

Before finally being stopped on an entry ramp to I-66, the suspect ran several red lights, drove over medians, drove on the wrong side of the road and hit a police car.

Ricco Darnell Taylor, 29, of Washington, D.C., was charged with felony speed to elude, assault on law enforcement, felony child endangerment, and driving on a suspended driver’s license.

The toddler wasn't injured but the 24-year-old pregnant female was taken to a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.

The whole thing started about 4 p.m. when Taylor and the female entered the Wegmans grocery store at 11620 Monument Drive in Fairfax. A Wegman’s Asset Protection Specialist called police when she recognized the subjects as having been in the store on a previous occasion and passing suspected counterfeit U.S. currency.

They did it again Monday, police say, before driving away in a green Jaguar.

Police found it traveling on Government Center Parkway and attempted to stop it, but the driver instead sped up and continued onto Monument Drive, where it ran stop lights and drove over medians, say police. It continued through Fair Oaks Mall onto Lee Jackson Memorial Highway, where police tried to box it in only to watch it hit a police car.

The driver made it to the entrance ramp to I-66, where a Precision Immobilization Technique (PIT) was used to finally stop the Jaguar.

Photo: Fairfax County Police