A Kansas City man has been sentenced to five years in prison after a high-speed chase that started with deputies watching a house suspected of harboring stolen cars and narcotics and ended with his BMW sliding into a center divider in Jackson County. Cyvauodis Brewer was sentenced last week for aggravated fleeing, a charge Clay County refers to as Valentine’s Law, following the April 2, 2025 pursuit that reached speeds of 93 mph.
According to KCTV, Clay County sheriff’s deputies were watching a home known for stolen cars and narcotics when they saw a blue BMW X5 leave the property. Deputies later determined the vehicle’s license plate belonged to another vehicle entirely, the station reported. The original driver of the BMW then met up with Brewer, who got behind the wheel before deputies moved to make contact.
When deputies attempted to stop the BMW, Brewer sped off instead, heading north on Brighton Avenue, the station’s report states. A deputy deployed stop sticks that struck a rear tire, but that did little to slow him down. Per the same account, Brewer kept driving at speeds up to 93 mph, running multiple red lights and veering into oncoming traffic as the chase stretched on.
Pursuit Crosses County Lines Before Crash
The chase that began in Clay County eventually continued into Jackson County, officials said, where Brewer lost control of the BMW and slid into a center divider near Belmont Avenue. He then ran from the car and was pursued on foot by deputies, the report notes. Law enforcement ordered him to stop, and when he did not comply, a deputy deployed a taser before taking him into custody. No injuries were reported in the incident.
Clay County’s Growing Use of Valentine’s Law
Brewer’s five-year sentence adds to a steadily growing list of aggravated-fleeing cases prosecuted under what Clay County calls Valentine’s Law, formally outlined by the Missouri Revisor of Statutes as addressing aggravated fleeing from a stop or detention of a motor vehicle. The county prosecuted 76 cases involving the law over the past year, according to KSHB, which reported that officers and deputies encounter people fleeing from police multiple times each week. By comparison, the outlet found Platte County had logged just 14 such cases while neighboring Jackson County had racked up 233.
Other Valentine’s Law prosecutions in the region illustrate how varied — and sometimes severe — the outcomes can be. Hoodline previously reported that among five defendants sentenced under the same law, prison terms ranged from three to ten years, with four of those five cases involving vehicle crashes during the escape attempt. In one of those cases, Richmond woman Kara Crow received a five-year sentence for aggravated fleeing along with a separate two-year sentence for possession of a controlled substance, while a driver named Bryan Noyola-Delacruz was sentenced to three years following a separate pursuit on January 2, 2026.
Earlier this year, Andres Galvan-Zuniga was sentenced to four years in prison for aggravated fleeing after reaching speeds up to 103 mph in a 35 mph zone during his own Clay County chase, KCTV reported. And in a sign of how frequently these incidents occur, KMBC reported that Clay County prosecutors once announced felony fleeing charges against three separate men whose incidents all took place within a 72-hour span.
