4 mail theft suspects in custody after rollover crash in SW Miami-Dade, police say
MIAMI -- Four suspects are in custody after they were involved in a rollover crash after allegedly stealing mail in a southwest Miami-Dade neighborhood, police said Wednesday.
Police said the incident occurred in southwest Miami-Dade and involved two scenes, one at SW 143rd Street and SW 137th Avenue and another at SW 137th Place and SW 145th Street, where one of the suspects ran from the scene.
Police said the two women were taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Officials didn't immediately say what charges the suspects could face.
According to police, investigators received reports about mail being stolen.
A patrol vehicle saw the suspected vehicle, which drove from the scene and crashed into another vehicle.
The suspects drove away from that scene before crashing and flipping the car over near nearby train tracks.
"I was just in the house and I just heard the noise and I thought it was a normal crash on the avenue," said one neighbor.
One of the suspects ran from the scene but was later caught.
Cookie Ramos
"Teenagers in the car... they went over the railroad track and they must've been going a little over 100 miles an hour," said another neighbor.
"They went airborne and they crashed into a tree over here and they knocked the fence down off three houses, they landed in the back yard and in the pool of somebody's house."
"I just saw the man on the ground and the police around him, that was all."
"This is a really quiet neighborhood, nothing like this ever happens, but today was one of these days where it's like wow."
The United States Postal Inspection Service has taken over the investigation. We have reached out and are awaiting information from them. Right now no word on any charges the four might face.
