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Watch: Police chase ends with tractor takedown

By Megan Ziegler
Published  November 23, 2024 4:50pm MST
Crime and Public Safety
FOX 10 Phoenix

Alleged tractor thief leads police on chase through 3 Louisiana towns

Police in Louisiana apprehended a suspect who led them on a chase on a tractor. Credit: Orian Davis via Storyful

The Brief

    • Police in Louisiana apprehended a suspect who led them on a chase on a tractor. 
    • Police said the tractor had been reported stolen earlier that morning. 
    • A witness stopped at an intersection recorded video of the tractor chase coming to an end. 

A police chase in Louisiana this week ended with officers arresting a suspect who was fleeing on a tractor. 

Police in the parish of Vermilion got a call around 9 a.m. Nov. 19 about a tractor that had been stolen. 

Authorities located the tractor and attempted a traffic stop, but said the driver wouldn’t pull over for quite some time.  

A witness stopped at an intersection filmed video of the chase coming to an end. 

"They’re goin’ on a high-speed chase in a tractor," a man and a woman can be heard saying off camera.

"How far you getting with that?" the woman wondered. 

Police say the suspect drove through three small towns before he stopped and was arrested. At one point, police said the suspect tried to run one of the officers off the road. 

Police didn’t specify how fast the suspect drove. 

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The Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office said Mark Ardoin has been booked at Vermilion Parish Correctional Center. Image: Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office 

The suspect eventually slowed down and came to a stop, stepping down from the tractor where he was arrested and taken into custody. 

Police say the 47-year-old has been charged with felony theft of a motor vehicle and aggravated flight from an officer. 

The Source: Information for this story was taken from a Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office press release, posted to social media on Nov. 19. The video was taken from Storyful, a news video licensing agency. This story was reported from Detroit.