Police staged a dramatic ‘boxing’ of a BMW on a Salford motorway this afternoon to stop a driver who evaded cops in Cheshire last week. It was then found the driver then failed a drugs test.
Greater Manchester Police’s traffic unit tweeted at 3:25pm that its officers had now arrested the driver and seized the BMW. They also said that the driver was disqualified until 2023.
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The GMP unit said: “This BMW 118 had previously made off from Cheshire Roads Crime Unit last week. It was picked up on the M602 by [the] SRT Tasking Team and boxed to prevent a pursuit. Driver [was] disqualified till April 2023 he then failed a drugs test + cocaine.”
A photo accompanying the tweet shows the police vehicles surrounding the BMW at a junction on the motorway.
