A pursuit that began amid reported armed carjackings in Charlotte ended Wednesday in Spartanburg County, where deputies arrested Zyvarius Webber after a truck crash and a brief foot chase, according to WSPA 7News. The incident also illustrates an important distinction in cross-state police work: North Carolina law addresses when its officers may continue an arrest during flight, but it does not by itself provide the complete operating procedure once a pursuit enters South Carolina.
What happened in the Charlotte-to-Spartanburg pursuit
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officers were patrolling the 3000 block of North Graham Street when they encountered what appeared to be a violent crime in progress, WSPA reported. The sheriff’s office said the suspects were connected to multiple armed carjackings, though the full scope of those incidents and the identities of other suspects had not been released in the report.
One suspect fled in a truck, and the pursuit continued at high speed on Interstate 85 from North Carolina into South Carolina. WSPA reported that a CMPD helicopter followed the chase into the state. Deputies said the suspects were still armed when they entered Spartanburg County, where the pursuit ended on Fort Prince Boulevard near Mustang Drag Road.
WSPA identified Webber as the truck’s driver. He was arrested after briefly fleeing on foot and was taken to a hospital as a precaution, the station reported. The charges listed were fugitive from justice and failure to stop for blue lights; additional suspects, potential charges and the full carjacking investigation remained unresolved.
What North Carolina law covers—and what it does not
North Carolina General Statutes § 15A-402(d) allows city and county officers to arrest someone outside their normal territory when the person allegedly committed an offense within that territory and is in immediate and continuous flight. That provision helps explain the North Carolina side of a pursuit that crosses a local boundary, according to the North Carolina General Assembly.
The same statute separately provides that county law-enforcement officers may arrest a person anywhere in North Carolina when the arrest is based on a felony committed within the county’s territory. That authority is limited to North Carolina; the cited provisions do not establish the full procedure for CMPD officers or other North Carolina agencies operating after a pursuit enters South Carolina.
That distinction matters in this case. The statute can provide background on North Carolina officers’ arrest authority during immediate flight, but it does not, on the available record, answer which South Carolina agency assumed control, how evidence and charges involving the Charlotte offenses will be coordinated, or what additional South Carolina proceedings may follow.
What remains unknown
The available reporting leaves several central questions open: how many carjackings investigators attribute to the suspects, whether anyone was injured, whether other people were arrested, and what evidence will support charges beyond the initial South Carolina allegations. Those details should not be inferred from the pursuit itself.
For now, the confirmed public account is narrower: a Charlotte investigation led to a high-speed flight into South Carolina, the truck crashed in Spartanburg County, and Webber was taken into custody. The North Carolina statute explains one part of the jurisdictional backdrop, while the investigation and any cross-border coordination remain ongoing.
