Suspects identified in high-speed chase on Palmetto Expressway – NBC 6 South Florida

Two men are facing charges in connection with a high-speed police chase that was caught on video and ended on the Palmetto Expressway in Miami-Dade Wednesday afternoon.

Edward Payne, 29, and Ichemith Joseph, 22, are in custody and facing several charges, after a chase that was only captured by NBC6 cameras.

Payne is charged with battery on a police officer, fleeing and eluding police, grand larceny, loitering or loitering and resisting a police officer without violence.

Joseph is charged with loitering or prowling and trespassing into an occupied structure.

The chase took place Wednesday afternoon on a busy highway. Aerial footage from Chopper 6 showed several officers in unmarked cars, along with Miami-Dade police, chasing a silver SUV at high speed that weaved through traffic on the Palmetto.

At one point, the SUV struck a vehicle stopped on the shoulder, narrowly missing a person standing behind it.

The SUV was eventually surrounded by police vehicles and stopped near the northwest exit of eastbound 47th Avenue, where officers surrounded it with weapons drawn and arrested both men.

Multiple suspects were arrested after a high-speed police chase ended on the Palmetto Expressway in Miami-Dade Wednesday afternoon.

Miami-Dade police officials said the incident began when officers from the Robbery Intervention Detail, conducting an operation in Florida City, spotted the SUV, which appeared to be surrounding a warehouse area.

Officers checked records and discovered the vehicle had been reported stolen. When they tried to stop it, the vehicle fled the scene.

An investigation revealed that the vehicle the suspects were driving had been stolen earlier this month, according to the arrest report.

NBC6 found documents showing Payne was charged with attempted second-degree murder in 2021 and was also previously arrested.

Payne also faces two arrest warrants, one for leaving the scene of an accident causing property damage and the other for knowingly driving with a suspended license.

Both suspects remained in custody at a Miami-Dade jail and are expected to appear before a judge on Thursday.