![]() ![]() The officer said he “recognized this to likely be an ambush” and laid down sideways in the car and accelerated as 4 to 6 shots came from the Suburban. “This maneuver appeared to be deliberately planned and placed the Suburban at a definite tactical advantage over me,” Oien wrote in his report. That’s when Brown rolled down his window, according to Oien. When that didn’t work, court documents state Brown turned his Suburban around to face his pursuer. ![]() Police are unwilling to discuss their use of the GPS tracking devices because they consider them protected tactics.Īfter Oien’s undercover car rear-ended Brown, Brown sped away and attempted to lose the car tailing him. However, the officer who executed the search warrant on the Suburban after the incident documented his retrieval of the StarChase device from the back of the Suburban. Oien said the StarChase system on the front of his car was “inoperable” after he rear-ended the Suburban and does not indicate that he launched the device. In the case of Brown’s surveillance, the loud thump Brown said he felt was a StarChase GPS.Īccording to the police report, Brown ran the stop sign and began to turn before abruptly slamming on the brakes. When the tracker is affixed to a suspect’s vehicle, police receive real-time data on the vehicle they are tracking. The device can be deployed from a launcher installed on police cars. Oien attempted to get close enough to launch a secretive GPS tracker called StarChase. “I was attempting to close space at a reasonable pace as to not alert the driver that I was the police,” Oien’s report reads. Police accounts of that night note officers’ fear that Brown would not stop if they turned their lights on and attempted to pull him over. The officer never turned on the interior light bar in his car to alert Brown he was an officer, according to the police report. The car following Brown was a red unmarked police car driven by Cpl. ![]() He had been convicted earlier of theft and drug possession in Spokane. Officers were waiting to arrest Brown for violating his probation by possessing marijuana. ![]() The Spokane Police Night Anti-Crime Team had Brown under surveillance. It was an undercover police officer.īrown is awaiting trial for assault in the first degree, unlawful possession of a firearm, two counts of possession of a controlled substance, and drive-by shooting.īrown claims he didn’t know he was being followed by police, though the friend in the Suburban said he did. There’s a million things it could be,” Brown said.īrown, 28, lives with post-traumatic stress disorder and drug addiction that he ties to his Army service in Afghanistan.īrown said he had been suspicious after an acquaintance told him earlier in the day “someone is coming to rob you for something you did in the past.”Īfter feeling the thump to his car, Brown turned his Suburban around, rolled down his window and shot at the red car that had been following him, according to court documents.īut the car tailing Brown wasn’t driven by a dangerous associate from his criminal past. “It’s dark, something hits my car, someone is trying to block me from leaving. When the car got to within feet of his rear bumper, he recently told The Spokesman-Review, he heard a loud thump as something struck his car. He left his apartment on the lower South Hill, got into his black Suburban with a friend and drove off.Īs he drove through the neighborhood, he noticed a car “waiting for me at the end of the block.” The driver turned the car’s headlights on and started following him, Brown said. ![]()
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