A routine traffic stop in Seagoville turned into a 45-minute, high-speed ordeal that tore through three Dallas neighborhoods before ending with a driver cornered in a backyard shed. Seagoville police said the Ford Mustang topped 100 mph westbound on U.S. Highway 175 after its driver fled the stop, eventually limping along on three tires and a heavily worn wheel before crashing through a fence.
According to FOX 4, the pursuit carried officers through South Dallas, Pleasant Grove and East Dallas before the Mustang finally gave out near East R.L. Thornton Freeway and Bank Street, crossing a grassy area and crashing through a fence. The driver, identified as 28-year-old Cody Brown, then ran into a backyard on nearby Garland Avenue and hid inside a shed.
A Standoff in the Backyard
Brown tried to block the shed door after officers repeatedly asked him to surrender, the station's report states. Dallas police officers then fired pepper-ball rounds into the shed, forcing him out. Officers arrested Brown at the scene for evading arrest, and no injuries were reported in connection with the pursuit.
Neighbors described the early moments of the chase as jarring. They told the outlet the wake-up was stressful but said they were relieved the incident ended peacefully, a sentiment that underscores just how close the pursuit came to their own backyards before it finally stopped.
Bond and Warrants
Brown was booked into the Seagoville jail, with bond set at $50,000, the same report notes. Records showed he had outstanding warrants for possession of drug paraphernalia and failure to appear — warrants that predate the chase and represent separate cases, each with its own court date.
Under Texas law, a traffic stop is itself a detention, and Texas Penal Code 38.04 covers intentional flight from an officer known to be lawfully attempting an arrest or detention. Evading on foot is classified as a Class A misdemeanor, carrying up to a year in jail and a fine of as much as $4,000. Evading in a vehicle, by contrast, is a felony: a first offense typically falls under the state jail felony version of the law, punishable by 180 days to two years behind bars and a fine of up to $10,000, while the vehicle-flight statute can also be charged as a third-degree felony carrying two to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000. FOX 4's report described the charge only as evading arrest without specifying a degree — the eventual charging document will show which level prosecutors select. Separately, possession of drug paraphernalia under Texas Health and Safety Code 481.125 is a Class C misdemeanor, carrying a maximum fine of $500. A felony booking is not the same as a filed case, and Brown is presumed innocent unless and until a court rules otherwise.
Not the First Seagoville Chase to End Badly
Not the First Seagoville Chase to End Badly WFAA reported that Seagoville police were following an allegedly stolen vehicle into Dallas when it crashed near Jordan Valley Road and Middlefield Road around 10:45 p.m. Sunday, November 1, 2026. The driver in that case died, and Dallas Fire-Rescue pronounced him deceased at the scene; no arrests were made, and the cause of that crash remained under investigation. Both incidents involved Seagoville police and ended in Dallas.
High-speed pursuits remain a persistent, if unevenly tracked, hazard nationally. The Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated that general-purpose state and local agencies conducted about 68,000 vehicle pursuits in 2012, with pursuit-related deaths averaging 355 annually from 1996 to 2015, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Separately, KERA News has reported that most states, including Texas, don't track police chases statewide, leaving federal figures as only a partial picture of how often these pursuits happen and how they end.
