I heard it on Local News, channel 6, but haven't found the story yet anywhere. I will try to repeat what I heard.

Authorities were staking out a house in Hialeah when a woman, who appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent, exited the house.

Authorities attempted to apprehend her for questioning, but she jumped into her car and took off. Police chased her for several miles.

They finally apprehended her at SW 72 AV and Perimeter Road, an intersection near Miami International Airport. She was taken into custody, and her car searched. Bomb sniffing dogs were brought in, although no one said what they were looking for.

[okay, that's it, basically.]

This caught my ear because that intersection is not too far from where I was working last night. Had I been on break at the time I probably would have heard the sirens.

One fellow worker who was coming to work at that time said there were 'like thirty cop cars there already, when another came rushing up with lights flashing. He realized he had missed the turn to where the rest were, and spun his car around, almost hitting a second cruiser rushing to the scene."

This intersection is not one that I usually use to go to and from work, but I can when necessary. Lots of warehouses around there with access to the mile long runway on the south side of the airport, 90R I think it is.

There was mention of a connection with the house and the terrorists, but no details.

As soon as I find a story about this, I'll bring it here.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Answers

Will be waiting to hear more.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

I guess I'll given them some latitude for the terrorist hunt. But cops in my area love to burn rubber when they really have no basis. Pedestrians and other drivers are endangered as a result.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Found it in the printed newspaper. Not on line yet. Can't access the Miami herald right now. I will type it out.

NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE

High-speed chase nabs wanted woman

A half-hour high-speed car chase through Northwest Miami-Dade Thursday night ended with the detention of a woman said to be wanted for a probation violation in New York.

FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela said that, despite television news reports that the woman was connected to the terrorist attacks on the nation earlier this month, it was not true.

"This has nothing to do with our investigation," said Orihuela.

According to a police dispatcher in Hialeah, where the chase began, detectives had been watchin a house at Palm Avenue and West 18th Street. The woman who left the house about 9:30 PM. was initially thought to have some kind of tie to the terrorists.

The car chase came to an end about 10 p.m. near the Executive Airport Motel, 6700 NW 12 St, and the woman, whose name was not released, was taken into custody.

[NW 12 St is Perimeter Road. I guess I did hear this going on. During lunch from 930 to 10 I was sitting outside in the break area, but sirens are normal and so I didn't even look up, assuming it was a fire engine or medical response unit responding to a hangnail at a nearby warehouse.]

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

That chase wouldn't have happened in Durham. Unless the woman was wanted for a local felony, no go. We've had a nasty fatal accident from cops chasing a stop-sign-runner so the rules were changed. However, state troopers and deputies in the area can chase into the city if they want. . .

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

Found the story on line

We don't have many chases around here. Usually there is a cop car around that can head the suspect off at the pass, so to speak. We lose more cruisers that way!

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001

You would be amazed at how many cruisers police departments go through, one way and another!

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2001