An array of police resources including sniffing dogs and a maneuver to disable a fleeing vehicle were mustered the morning of Oct. 9 to collar two suspects amid a series of car break-ins at a north-of-Charlottesville apartment complex.
Dyonte Lenaze Trice, a 19-year-old accused of serving as a getaway driver, now faces three criminal charges, while 22-year-old Maquarr Ishawn Chambers, faces seven.
The pursuit began after 1:07 a.m. when police say a 911 caller reported a larceny in progress in the 400 block of Crafton Circle. That location lies within Archer at Brookhill, a newish apartment complex in Albemarle County between Carrsbrook and Forest Lakes South.
"The reporting party indicated that males wearing all black attire and masks were attempting to break into vehicles and steal items," according to a county police statement.
Officer Bryce Owens reported that he saw the suspect vehicle attempting to exit a parking lot.
"I initiated a traffic stop and activated my emergency equipment," Owens wrote in his criminal complaint. "The vehicle failed to yield."
The chase was on.
"At the intersection of Seminole Trail and Proffit Road," he wrote, "I used a precision immobilization technique (PIT) to stop the vehicle."
It didn’t quite work.
"The vehicle spun and then kept going east on Proffit Road," he wrote.
So Owens tried again, and this time he succeeded in stopping the pursued vehicle.
The pursuit then continued on foot.
Chambers was quickly taken into custody, but police say that Trice evaded capture until a K-9 unit arrived to assist.
Chambers subsequently admitted to breaking into "10 to 15" vehicles, according to Owens.
Another officer, Austin Monroe, asserted in a separate criminal complaint that he read Trice a Miranda warning about the right to remain silent before receiving additional information from the suspect.
"He stated he was driving the vehicle waiting on his friends to ‘do whatever they were doing to the victims’ vehicles’ when officers intercepted their plan," according to Monroe.
Monroe tallied some items found inside the car: jewelry, $185 in cash, a brown purse and a PlayStation video game console. Police also recovered a handgun, ammunition and an extended magazine from the car.
Back at Ashwood Boulevard, the road into Forest Lakes South, where an officer had reported seeing an object thrown from the fleeing car, police recovered another gun.
Both suspects told a magistrate about being recent hires at Pizza Hut, with Trice reporting nearly full-time work while Chambers said he was working part-time.
Chambers was once accused of stealing a boy’s iPhone from a cubby at Jump Cville, now Get Air, a trampoline park in the Gardens Shopping Center north of the city. However, that case ended in 2022 with a prosecutor’s motion to not prosecute, and neither man has any criminal convictions on his record.
Chambers, who resides in Howardsville, faces a felony for wearing a mask along with six misdemeanors: reckless firearm handling, obstructing justice and four counts of unlawful vehicle entry.
Trice, who resides near Rio Road in Albemarle County, faces two felonies: eluding and mask-wearing, plus the misdemeanor of carrying a concealed firearm.
Both men are being held at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail pending a bail hearing.
Source: www.dailyprogress.com
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