A pickup truck spinning donuts in a southeast Oklahoma City parking lot turned into a late-night police pursuit Sunday, ending with two people under arrest and marijuana found inside the vehicle. No one was hurt in the chase, which stretched from a residential intersection to a restaurant lot near two major highways.
Oklahoma City police said the trouble started near Southeast 46th Street and Sunnylane Road, according to KOCO. Officers spotted the pickup truck doing donuts in a parking lot and moved to stop it, but the driver took off instead, touching off a pursuit through the area.
The chase came to an end at 11:23 p.m. in the parking lot of a restaurant near Interstate 240 and Interstate 35, the outlet reported. Police took both the driver and a passenger into custody at the scene, closing out a pursuit that covered several miles of southeast Oklahoma City roadways.
The chase comes against a history of concern over pursuit risks in Oklahoma City. In June 2022, the department adopted restrictions that limited how far officers could exceed speed limits in emergency driving and called for certain pursuits to end in hazardous conditions. Oklahoma City recorded 383 police chases in 2020, then a city record; in 2021, a fleeing pickup struck and killed 28-year-old Star Shells. The policy changes and figures reflect the safety questions that can accompany a pursuit, even when no one is hurt in a particular chase.
Marijuana Found Inside the Truck
While processing the vehicle, officers found marijuana inside, the station's report states. Both people arrested are now facing eluding-police and drug charges, though further details on the specific charges were not available. Police said no one was injured during the chase or the arrest.
Oklahoma law distinguishes basic eluding from more serious conduct: the state statute makes eluding a misdemeanor, but elevates it to a felony when the driver endangers another person. A separate provision covers a fleeing driver who causes a crash resulting in great bodily injury. The reported arrests do not establish which statutory subsection applies, and police have not identified the specific charges; the absence of reported injuries alone does not resolve how prosecutors may classify the alleged conduct.
This is not the only recent pursuit police in the area have reported. Just days earlier, a separate chase unfolded after a suspect failed to pull over for an undercover officer who was attempting to stop someone wanted on drug charges, per the same account. That pursuit began near Northeast 36th Street and North Kelley Avenue and ended with an arrest at South Hattie Avenue and Southeast Grand Boulevard.
What Comes Next
Beyond the eluding and drug charges, no additional case details — including identities, booking information, or court proceedings — have been released. Oklahoma City police have not specified an exact time for when Sunday night's incident began beyond noting it happened after dark.
