Dps Secretary Chases down Suspect

IT'S TURNING INTO A BUSY WEEK FOR TOP COPS. SATURDAY ALBUQUERQUE POLICE CHIEF RAY SCHULTZ PERSONALLY STOPPED A SUSPECTED DRUNK DRIVER WHO PLOWED INTO THE STATE FAIR PARADE AND INJURED TWO PEOPLE. YESTERDAY, STATE PUBLIC SERVICE SECRETARY GORDON EDEN WHO'S IN CHARGE OF ALL STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ... FOUND HIMSELF BEING A STREET COP AGAIN. HERE'S ALEX GOLDSMITH IN THE NEWSPLEX .. ALEX? *** ... EDEN BACKED UP A STATE POLICE OFFICER WHO WAS TRYING TO STOP A DANGEROUS DRIVER WHO REFUSED TO PULL OVER. A DASH CAMERA CAUGHT IT ALL. sirens IT'S A LITTLE BEFORE EIGHT AND STATE POLICE ARE IN HOT PURSUIT OF A FORD TRUCK ON I-25 NEAR BERNALILLO. 58 this guy's just driving erratically making erratic lane changes going off on to the shoulder, speeding up slowing down, changing again 1:08 THE DRIVER, 35 YEAR OLD FRANK ROMERO, ISN'T STOPPING EVEN WITH AN OFFICER CHASING HIM. DASH CAM VIDEO SHOWS AN UNMARKED UNIT WITH ITS LIGHTS ON -- AND THE TRUCK ROLLING DOWN THE FREEWAY SHOULDER. 12:56:25 Stop your vehicle right now :27 stop your vehicle right now :29 ROMERO FINALLY PULLS OVER. :51 Step out of the vehicle right now :53 AS THE OFFICER MOVES IN TO ARREST ROMERO, YOU CAN SEE HIS BACKUP IS A LITTLE UNUSUAL. IT'S STATE PUBLIC SAFETY SECRETARY GORDEN EDEN... WHO SPOTTED ROMERO'S ERRATIC DRIVING ON THE WAY TO WORK AND TRIED TO PULL HIM OVER. WHILE SECRETARY EDEN TAKES A PEEK AT THE TRUCK... THE OFFICER QUESTIONS ROMERO. 12:57:33Officer: There was another vehicle behind you with lights 12:57:35 going on and you failed to stop :37 Romero: I didn't see him! :38 IT'S UNCLEAR WHY ROMERO DIDN'T STOP. STATE POLICE SAY HE WAS NOT INTOXICATED. AND HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY OUTSTANDING WARRANTS. :59 Every time he'd come back on the interstate he'd go all the way over and catch the rumble strip on the other side 1:04 ROMERO WAS LATER ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF EVADING AN OFFICER AND RECKLESS DRIVING. ALTHOUGH SECRETARY EDEN HELPING OUT OFFICERS MAY SEEM UNUSUAL... IT'S CERTAINLY LEGAL. 3:17 He is a certified officer in NM, you know he has every right to stop people 3:24 and no he doesn't do this every day, 3:25 he doesn't go out and work traffic 3:26 EDEN HAS PLENTY OF FIELD EXPERIENCE. HE'S A FORMER STATE POLICE OFFICER AND SERVED AS U.S. MARSHAL FOR NEW MEXICO FOR EIGHT YEARS. BACK TO YOU. OK ALEX. FRANK ROMERO, THE SUSPECT, HAS BEEN ARRESTED TWICE THIS YEAR ON DRUG CHARGES AND JUST LAST WEEK FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. A BROKEN GAS