Police catch up with fleeing driver

TONIGHT WE HAVE THE FINAL MOMENTS OF A HAIR-RAISING HIGH-SPEED CHASE THAT CAME TO A FIERY END HERE IN ALBUQUERQUE THE SUSPECT WAS RIDING ON RIMS BY THE TIME HE HIT THE METRO AREA THAT AFTER RUNNING FROM A CRIME POLICE SAY HE COMMITTED OUTSIDE OF TUCUMCARI SHELTON DODSON HAS THAT VIDEO FOR US TONIGHT IN OUR TOP STORY SEHLTON LAW ENFORCEMENT USED SPIKE BELTS TO BLOW OUT THE SUSPECTS TIRES IN THREE DIFFERENT SPOTS ONCE IN CLINES CORNERS AGAIN IN MORIARTY AND AGAIN IN TIJERAS CANYON EVEN THOUGH ALL OF HIS TIRES WERE GONE YOU CAN SEE THE SUSPECT DIDN T GIVE UP HIS RUN UNTIL HE REACHED EUBANK ON INTERSTATE 40 AT LEAST NINE STATE POLICE OFFICERS TAILED THE SUSPECT FORCING HIM TO COME OUT OF HIS S- U-V WITH HIS HANDS UP AT THAT SAME TIME THE FRONT OF HIS S-U-V CATCHES FIRE REMEMBER HE HAD BEEN RIDING ON HIS RIMS — AT ABOUT 50 MILES PER HOUR — FOR SEVERAL MILES ONE OFFICER USED A FIRE EXTINGUISHER TO PUT THE FIRE OUT WHILE THE OTHER OFFICERS TOOK THE SUSPECT INTO CUSTODY We were not going to let him go The seriousness of his crimes dictated that he had to be apprehended before he hurt somebody POLICE TELL US THE 18-YEAR-OLD WHO TOOK THEM ON THIS CHASE HAD ROBBED A TRUCK STOP AT GUNPOINT OUTSIDE OF TUCUMCARI EARLIER ON WEDNESDAY THAT S 150 MILES EAST OF WHERE HE WAS CAUGHT AT TIMES — WHEN HE STILL HAD ALL FOUR TIRES — HE WAS RUNNING NEARLY 100 MILES AN HOUR POLICE HERE IN ALBUQUERQUE BLOCKED OFF ALL THE EXIT RAMPS SO THEY COULD KEEP HIM OFF OF CITY STREETS WHICH POLICE SAY WAS CRITICAL FOR EVERYONE S SAFETY TURNS OUT THE TEEN WAS A WANTED FUGITIVE OUT OF