Allen Lynch Jr., 23, recorded himself being pulled over by a trooper with the Texas Department of Public Safety on Feb. 4, local ABC News affiliate KTRK reported. The trooper apparently pulled Lynch over because his temporary tags were expired.
Lynch can be heard saying that he just got the car that day, a Dodge Charger.
The trooper asks Lynch for his license and tells him to get out of the car — and that’s when Lynch took off. The trooper can be seen in the side view mirror running back to his car.
Lynch continued to record as he sped through traffic, weaving his way between cars and trucks.
“I got away,” Lynch says later in the video. He is seated in the car, apparently having pulled off the road after fleeing the officer. “I got away. Round of applause. Round of applause.”
“You think I’m going to make their job easier?” he also said. “Their job is to catch us. Our job is to run away.”
He is now charged with evading police, KTRK reported.
“It was brazen, and it demonstrated that he doesn’t fully understand the responsibility that comes with driving a vehicle,” Lt. Craig Cummings with Texas DPS told KTRK. “It puts lives at risk needlessly, and he had a cavalier attitude about it.”
Four days later, on Feb. 8, Lynch was arrested, according to KTRK. He has since reportedly posted a $10,000 bond.
KTRK reported that this isn’t Lynch’s first attempt at fleeing a traffic stop.
“That’s like the third time they tried me, bro,” Lynch says in the video. “They keep trying me, bro. I don’t know what they want from me that they’re not going to get. They have to catch me first.”
According to KTRK, court documents say that Lynch fled from a trooper in September who pulled him over for a temporary tag.
Texas DPS confirmed Lynch Jr’s arrest with Law&Crime and that this was not the first time he has allegedly fled from law enforcement.
“Our investigators confirmed the person on the video was the same person who fled from Troopers on two occasions in a vehicle,” Cummings told Law&Crime.
In the video, he shows his interaction with the trooper who approached his car from the passenger side window. He tells Lynch he is pulling him over for an expired temporary tag on his vehicle.
Lynch tells the trooper that he just got the Dodge Charger that day. The trooper asks for his driver's license and tells him to step out of the car, leading Lynch to speed off.
The video continues to show Lynch weaving through traffic at a high rate of speed, taking an exit, and then some sort of crash can be heard.
"So y'all, I got away," Lynch said in the video. "I got away. Round of applause. Round of applause."
He then shows damage to the wheels of the Dodge Charger sustained during his getaway efforts.
"You think I'm going to make their job easier?" Lynch asked. "Their job is to catch us. Our job is to run away."
"It puts lives at risk needlessly, and he had a cavalier attitude about it," Cummings said.
On Feb. 8, Lynch was charged and arrested. He has since posted a $10,000 bond.
At the time of the incident, he was out on bond for a similar crime.
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