Officer Dragged
By Car at 40 MPH
During Routine
Traffic Stop
News 10 Now-Syracuse,
N.Y.
A police
officer was
dragged by a car
at a speed of up
to 40 miles per
hour during a
routine traffic
stop just after
6 p.m. Sunday.
Two officers
pulled over a
car on North
Salina Street in
Syracuse. Police
say the driver
was acting
suspicious, and
reached to grab
something from
the center
console.
Police
officer Sean
Goodeve was on
the passenger
side of the
vehicle, and
said he saw
drugs in the
car, and reached
in to grab it.
That's when
the driver,
35-year old
Leonard Miles,
slammed the car
into reverse,
hitting the
police car.
Miles then
took off,
dragging Officer
Goodeve. Before
he could free
himself, the car
was going 40
miles per hour.
Goodeve
tumbled across
the street. He
was treated at
St. Joseph's
Hospital and
released.
The second
officer chased
the car on foot
and found it
abandoned on Ash
Street in
Syracuse.
The driver,
Leonard Miles
was found in an
apartment
building in the
200 block of Ash
Street.
He was on
parole and now
faces additional
charges of
assault and
criminal
possession of a
controlled
substance.
