Cops collar rogue biker in Newlands
(CNS): Residents in Newlands as well as police officers all appeared to forget the social distancing rules when the public came out to watch the police chase a rogue biker on Saturday. Dozens of officers were involved in the arrest of the 23 year-old man from Bodden Town after he crashed the bike into the road block set up during the pursuit in North Sound Estates.
The dirt bike chase was captured on video, which has been circulating on social media, and shows the amount of police resources deployed to arrest the rogue rider, including the police helicopter.
The man was arrested for breach of curfew, dangerous driving, and several other traffic offenses. Meanwhile, a 23 year old woman was also arrested on suspicion of breach of curfew and obstructing police, in connection with the same incident.
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I knew it would come to this, its like you can predict the future with some of these guys, another one bites the dust, i saw him on milton drive with his friends with the blue bmw smoking weed 24/7, up to no good , wondering how long unit it came to this. it’s sad because these people are the future of the island.
They’re not the future. Do not be confused. They will be dead within the decade or incarcerated.
There are always more productive things to do than riding a motor bike. And at the end of the day, should it be your reprieve in life then do so responsibly. We do have responsible riders out there but clearly those people are few and far apart.
I smoke weed too but make $6k KYD a month and ride a legal dirt bike. I don’t do dangerous stunts or any of that foolishness.
Please don’t generalize to say all weed smokers are wasting their lives. Even Alden said that alcohol can be seriously abused but he drinks responsibly. Yet you can overdose on alcohol but not weed!
Weed is illegal.
Whether or not you think it should be, you’re knowingly and willingly breaking the law.
Again, don’t generalize. I don’t even live in Cayman, just visit often! I converted it from USD for you.
These dirtbikers need to be knocked off the bikes and paraded to heroes square for a public paddling on their backsides.
Idle children who think they’re thugs. Spank em’ and crush their bikes.
Sounds like a good way to start!
Kudos to the police for nabbing this loser. One down, 99 more to go. Too many people race around here putting others at risk.
Crazy how is as the public see these losers all the time but cops never do. Takes us all off the road for the RCIP to nab them. Kudos and all, but keep it up after this is over. Those idiots are a danger to us all.
Makes one wonder who raised these lunatics? What in the world were they taught by their parents that would cause them to carry on so stupidly?
A clothes line across the street would have been an easier solution.
Ive thought about doing it before
Not a good idea@1:45.could kill someone..dont want blood on your hands..
Dear RCIPS please increase patrols on Fairbanks road where two of these covidiots regularly race up and down pulling wheelies.
Presumably these are the people the Commissioner refers to when he says “the turd of April” .
CNS: Amazingly, someone did not get your joke and in a reply berated the CoP for his use of language. So, to be clear, the commenter is teasing CoP Byrne for his Irish accent. When he says ‘third’, it sounds like ‘turd’. I can’t believe I have to explain this.
Really not funny… British humor I guess.
It’s not humour. It is his accent!
I love his accent.
Indeed, but had he said the RCIPs caught a turd on the turd I for one would have been very happy with such a factually correct statement. Keep up the great work CNS, don’t let the buggers grind you down!
Crush the seized bikes, they are illegal after all.
Brilliant idea.
Some people on Facebook are actually defending this guy. Saying the police were overly aggressive?
Honestly it just makes me shake my head. If the police instruct you to do something then do it, otherwise you only have yourself to blame.
Plus, FB should be done away with. People just aren’t smart enough.
Don’t forget instagram. Why do we need Instagram or Facebook?
I’ve personally seen these jackasses go 60+ miles an hour in small residential streets with people and young kids walking around.
In the Brac is the same with these idiot’s riding bikes, a few weeks ago I was driving on the road during 40 when another car was about to.pass me and this idiot motor cycle rider passed me between my car an the bush on the side of the road, in 2 seconds he was out of sight. Must have been during at least 90 m p h
Well done my ass. The damn officer closed line the boy off the motorbike. What kind of false news is this? Have you all not seen the videos? Have you not seen the excessive force and brutality? I DO NOT and let me repeat I DO NOT CONDONE this young mans behavior but as law enforcement shouldn’t we set better examples. Most of these young men call the police pigs. How do we fix this, how do we bridge the gap? Look at the way the officers jumped on this young man after he was on the ground. How the bike police ran in and began to ring his arm. Come on man this can’t be right!
The police are upset he bruised there ego when in reality they should try to learn a few things from them. Who have they hurt? Who have they killed? Who have they robbed? Where do they go to ride? Every where is either developing or owned. Where is Jays mal pit and the race track? Stop being ignorant and let’s find a solution.
You appear to be part of the problem. Imbecile.
I concur …you’re an idiot !
Or the writer is the parent of the problem. My biggest issue is these loser parents who buy these toys for their jobless boys and actively encourage them to keep/hide unlicensed vehicles in their home.
I would never support my child breaking the law. And if he gets his backside popped while breaking it, I am not going to we shouting down those paid to uphold the law.
Arrest the parents too…
I watched the video and could not believe the speed and reckless behavior of this biker and in a neighborhood no less. His actions were cause for an arrest in itself let alone being in quarantine.
Dear Sir,
1. The officer did indeed clothesline the 23 year old man (he is no longer a boy at 23), and he did a very good job of it.
2. What about the short article do you consider to be “false news”? And where do you see excessive force and brutality? It was a clean, safe takedown. An awesome takedown. Wish we could have had a better view of it. Whoever administered it, should teach it to all the other constables.
3. You do indeed CONDONE the man’s behaviour by questioning a very legitimate and clean arrest. Did you want the constables to softly whisper into his ear to ask him to come off his bike instead or would you have preferred that they had provided him with a soft mattress and fluffy pillows for him to land on, with crème soufflé for desert?
4. Perhaps this young men and others should not be calling the police pigs. Perhaps you and others ought to teach them that it’s important to respect the police.
5. How do you fix it and bridge the gap? Easy. It’s called parenting. It’s called raising your child with love, discipline and respect. It’s called teaching your child right from wrong. It’s called teaching your child that there are consequences to their actions. This person obviously learned none of those – and apparently, neither did you.
6. The officers jumped on him because prior to him being tackled, he demonstrated poor decision-making skills…and, therefore, by jumping on him, the officers guided him to the right decision.
7. The police were not at all upset. They showed great restraint. In fact, I probably would have provided him with a good trashing so that next time he remembers not to endanger the lives of others. It’s a good thing that I am not a police constable.
8. Where do they get to ride? Well first of all, what part of LOCKDOWN did you not understand…or what part of ESSENTIAL travel did you not understand? Secondly, he can ride on his PS4, like everyone else is doing at this time. And if you’re going to play live Grand Theft Auto, be prepared to pay the price.
9. “Stop being ignorant…” Perhaps you ought to learn to take your own advice.
Hope this answers all your questions.
Kind regards.
CC4
Excellent comment 12:06
Yes!!!!!!!!!!! 🙌 To all of your points!
Fully agree! Keep up the good work RCIPS
A man he is not. Men do not behave like that. He is an overgrown reckless, daredevil fop.
Yeah he’s a punk for sure. Little punk girls like these ol fools. Making them believe they are men. Feeding their childish ego.
You are an idiot! These guys are racing around and what if the hit a child playing, walking ,etc. they have no regard for the public safety and the law. The day will come when some innocent young person is killed by them.
So, right now, we all have nowhere to go and let off steam. Should we all take to the roads with reckless and illegal behaviour? Surely you can see that suggesting people don’t have an outlet is ridiculous. These boys do this all the time because they get away with it too often. Helmetless wheelying through GT with cruise shippers on the street. Once in a while one gets caught and here his behaviour created this situation.
People call the police pigs, and far worse, throughout the world. I’m sure they don’t take it personally, and there’s no need for counseling sessions to build bridges between law enforcement and cretins on 2 stroke dirt bikes.
Excessive force and brutality. Hahaha, you’ve no idea what that even means. I can assure you that what you thought you saw was not the case.
7:58 pm people like you is why its so much crime in Cayman. We are glad that guy was stopped from breaking the law in many ways and before he hurt some innocence person
Wow, you’re unbelievable. I may have read the story wrong but I think the boy was 23?
In any case it is clear to see that while on the ground he resisted the cuffs. Had he just put his hands behind his back as instructed that would have been the end of it.
Also how do you expect the police to stop someone that doesn’t listen? Should we all now evade police and when we get caught expect them to treat us with kid gloves?
You are part of the problem. I hope you aren’t raising your children, if you have any, to follow your belief system.
The officer should have some whatever it took to stop someone that was engaged in an act that could have killed anyone on the road. Lucky they didn’t do more. And you can see from the video that he didn’t put his hands behind his back. That was an additional defiant act and caused more struggle.
Silly idiot 05/04/2020 at 7:58 pm
Do not ride during this time of curfew. Not sure I would consider riding a motor bike exercise…
Better this happen to him than he run over and kill one of my children or himself for that matter..
Stop praising stupid! Stupid is as Stupid does!
You are part of the problem!
I got caught in the police chase of this idiot in two directions within 2 minutes. He was endangering the lives of everyone around him at the speeds he was going. If I’d have caught him I would have smashed his head in.
Oh dear 7.58 pm, did you really write that? These bikers are doing everything illegally and putting innocent peoples lives at risk. The guy was bought down and trying to run away, so reasonable force is allowed. From what I saw, in the circumstances, this was more than reasonable force.
solution = obey the law.
funny how the rest of us have no problem doing this.
I bet he doesn’t like to read! Bet he only wants to look at bike magazines! Bet ya that!
Stop defending wutless behaviour and condoning stupidity.
Mothers and GRANDMOTHERS: If you raising your boy children and girl children to act like rebels without a cause and to blatantly ignore the rules and the laws which all govern us then prepare to reap what you sow!
Do you encourage your children to read and educate themselves?
Do you teach them to accept responsibility for their actions?
Do you teach them to respect authority and other people in general?
Or do you teach them to defy!? To rebel!? To disrupt!? To antagonize!? What are you passing on to the next generation?
One down, eleven to go. You can watch the whole tribe gas up at Countryside most Saturday afternoons. Unbelievable!
Which means there is everything from detailed cctv footage to debit card transaction details, and yet they seemingly are beyond the reach of law enforcement?
They have debit cards?
Cash only bobo.
Spot on, these are the idiots who take pictures of their cash and post in on social media.
I know it wouldn’t solve the problem but it should be illegal to fuel-up a vehicle that is illegal on the road i.e. no plates and lights.
Give the officer who made the arrest a bonus.
Hell, give him a medal.
A terrific response by the RCIP. Fantastic to see them out in such force robustly enforcing the law. If they respond so well so offenses like this, just imagine the overwhelming enforcement that would ensue if someone beat up a bar manager, or corruptly obtained status.
I can’t believe the police could have to answer for the way they detained this idiot, the world has gone mad. Too lenient if you ask me. RCIPS get a lot of stick, but great work on this one guys.
Well done RCIPS! Now to net the rest of them! Every single day they are on the main roads pulling stunts and putting peoples lives in danger. I have no sympathy for them and have reported them a few times. They have zero regard for the law.
This sort of activity goes on up and down Monument and Mijall Road in Bodden Town on a regular basis. By the time you report it they are gone ( if, big if, you get a response). And yet there is a member of the RCIPS lives on that road, never seems to notice it or bother about it. And we wonder why people are so cynical about the police?
Not just those roads in BT 5:22. The straight bit of the by pass ending at Belford Estates has these bikes every single weekend pulling incredible speed and reckless stunts.
Question: how many people have now “been warned for prosecution?” And if a criminal offense, will their work permits be denied for criminal offenses?
And what if they are not Work Permit Holders?
5:23 Exactly! Sorry to say it but most of the people breaking curfew are not expats.. Why are we so quick to try and blame other nationalities? It’s like we are blind to the wrong caused by are own people…
Signed by a fellow Caymanian.
Many of them are expats but erroneously recognized as Caymanians. The police should be checking for confirmation they in fact all have status.
Ah – the old false flag non-Catmanians in disguise trick. Works every time.
No trick. Just ignorance in various elements of government and society as to how to tell the difference between a Caymanian and an non. Caymanian, in particular since things like passports, date of birth, and who your daddy thinks he is are not relevant considerations. I stand by my assertion. The RCIP do not have mechanisms to determine accurately whether persons are Caymanian or not, and ought refer that question to the relevant authorities each and every time someone is to be charged.
Yawn….the ‘I’m a better Caymanian than you’ garbage rolled out again.
No. Either someone is Caymanian or they are not. The problem is the police do not seem to be able to tell people apart when it comes to status.
3.45pm I doubt this applies to the bikers.
Warned for prosecution means they will be getting a court summons and going to court, not just a verbal warning
Watch the daily briefings and don’t be so ignorant. The commissioner clearly said that the penalty is either a fine and or jail time. It goes no further beyond that. Be informed or at least make an effort to be informed! Does not matter where you are from, stay home if you ever want this island to open up internally at least anytime in the foreseeable future.
What has Newlands/North Sound Estates area come to? Used to be a nice area. I took a drive through some months ago and was astounded, shacks and partly completed structures with derelict cars next to nice homes. Weren’t there some kind of covenants?
Agreed, I ran through there couple of weeks back, wild dogs roaming around as well (not the people) – just looked real rundown.
It’s called traffic… But West Bay coming up turn up.
Sadly, Cayman is the land of Laws with no enforcement.
I just wish they would arrest more of them. The amount of dangerous driving these idiots do on the roads, endangering others, is unacceptable. The amount of times I see them riding on the road or bypass riding on one wheel for long distances is ridiculous. I don’t have a problem them hurting themselves as Darwinism ensures the survival of humanity, it is them putting others in danger that needs to be sorted out!
1:56 Well put! Natural selection at its best! But yes it is a shame they are a risk to others. And people are really complaining that the police were “too rough” with them!? Honestly people if you do something stupid and try to run from it the police are completely in their right to tackle you.
Think about the resources that went into this chase, that were diverted from other areas! This cretin is lucky he didnt get tasered. Well done RCIPS!!!! Give the team a bonus and crush the bike please.
Kudos to the RCIPS for their patient and safe pursuit and capture. Please continue this policy. Thank you!
This is great stuff. I hope the rest of the morons take note. Acting like a child on a dirt bike isn’t deemed ‘essential’, who would have thought?!?!
As for the idiots actually defending the fool, he was not brutally attacked by anyone. He is lucky he is in a jurisdiction that shows restraint. Riding through roadblocks in many places will earn you a kicking at best, and a bullet or 20 at worst.
I’d like to see more of this, until they’re all weeded out.
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What they said
I’m 25 and have a fully legal / licensed / insured dirt bike that I use to get to work with. I ride too and have zero sympathy for these fools.
You can’t get rid of all of us. The rest need to grow up, be an adult, and get some mirrors and lights. Breaking curfew aside, not saying that wasn’t dumb too.
We can sure try.
You have served no good with your asinine comment 8:23pm. 2:20pm stated clearly that they have gone about it the right way and has a road legal and insured bike and has separated him/herself from the one’s who are creating the problem, yet still you come up with this shit bird comment. For me, it is somewhat telling that it took a pandemic for the police to finally start doing something which should have been done years ago. I am glad to see it being done. I am dismayed with like you who would blame and/or punish those who do it the right way and the legal way.
Well done RCIPS. And the bike should get crushed as well with him watching!
Those defending the biker and accusing the police I’m sure are locals. This isn’t the first time one has crashed after being chased by police for illegal and dangerous riding only for the locals to blame the “foreign” police and ignore the rider’s behaviour.
Locals from where? You assume too much of you have concluded all are from Cayman or otherwise of Caymanian parentage.
Did you learn to speak Gibberish from one of those on-line courses?
Was the “boy’ arrested a Caymanian, although he was 23 you were all right to call him a boy. All these riders need to have their IQ tested for they behave like children, not adults.