{"id":18774,"date":"2017-03-22T09:28:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T14:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=18774"},"modified":"2017-03-22T09:28:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T14:28:32","slug":"video-high-speed-pursuit-of-fort-worth-texas-mail-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/03\/22\/video-high-speed-pursuit-of-fort-worth-texas-mail-thieves\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: High-speed pursuit of Fort Worth, Texas mail thieves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-width: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/interactive.tegna-media.com\/video\/embed\/embed.html?id=2546623&amp;type=video&amp;title=Mail thieves toss letters from car as they lead FWPD on a chase&amp;site=287&amp;playerid=6918249996581&amp;dfpid=32805352&amp;dfpposition=Video_prestream_external\u00a7ion=home\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>FORT WORTH &#8212; Dramatic dash camera video from Fort Worth police shows a high-speed, pedal-to-the-metal chase that ended up with two North Texans in federal custody.<\/p>\n<p>Windell Briggs and DeShea Thornton were arrested in January, according to a federal criminal complaint.<\/p>\n<p>But only this week did Fort Worth police release video from a 20 mile long pursuit that shows Briggs and Thornton dangerously weaving in and out of traffic while blowing through red lights.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint details how the two suspects were observed using a &#8220;fishing device&#8221; to illegally steal mail from a post office site in north Fort Worth. Postal inspectors had the location under observation as part of a sting.<\/p>\n<p>When an inspector tried to pull over their car late on the night of January 13, the complaint says Briggs and Thornton took off.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, ten Fort Worth officers joined in a pursuit that lasted nearly 20 minutes as the pair zipped through city streets and onto freeways. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/news\/video-high-speed-pursuit-of-fort-worth-mail-thieves\/424443549\">Read more from WFFA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18775\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Texas-Mail-Thieves.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Texas-Mail-Thieves.jpg 524w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Texas-Mail-Thieves-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT WORTH &#8212; Dramatic dash camera video from Fort Worth police shows a high-speed, pedal-to-the-metal chase that ended up with two North Texans in federal custody. Windell Briggs and DeShea Thornton were arrested in January, according to a federal criminal complaint. But only this week did Fort Worth police release video from a 20 mile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18777,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18774\/revisions\/18777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}