OPA-LOCKA, Fla. — Several law enforcement agencies followed a 47-year-old convicted felon released from prison in November as he sped through stop signs and red lights and crashed on Saturday in Miami-Dade County, police said.
Miami police officers identified Steven Moss -- who has been in and out of prison since 2000 and has a history of grand theft autos going back to 1998 -- as a suspect in a crime on Saturday.
Deputies in a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office helicopter joined the pursuit of the white Toyota sedan that Moss was driving when an Opa-locka police officer saw him speeding on Opa-locka Boulevard, according to police.
Moss turned at a gas station before making “an abrupt U-turn” into Northwest 27 Avenue southbound, and crashing into cars that had stopped at a red light, according to the Opa-locka police officer’s report.
“I drove my vehicle in front of it, attempting to block it,” the police officer wrote.
Moss then “reversed the vehicle ... drove over a cement divider” at the entrance of a gas station and “intentionally rammed” into marked patrol cars, according to the police report.
Moss managed to turn back southbound on Northwest 27 Avenue and kept driving on the car’s rim after the front passenger side tire blew out, police said.
When the rim gave out, the Toyota stopped abruptly along Opa-locka Boulevard at Northwest Eighth Avenue, according to a police arrest report.
Opa-locka police officers arrested Moss and Ajna Richardson, a second suspect who was a passenger in the white Toyota, records show.
In the back seat, an elderly woman was complaining of chest pain, according to police. She owned the Toyota that Moss was driving, police said.
County inmate records show corrections booked Moss and Richardson, 23, early Sunday morning at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
Moss faced 65 charges in three pending cases and two warrant cases for reckless driving and driving without a driver’s license, records show.
Court records show prosecutors filed an Opa-locka Police Department case against Moss on Sunday for a felony charge of aggravated fleeing or eluding a police officer and 62 counts of misdemeanor petit theft.
Court records show prosecutors also filed two Miami Police Department cases on Monday against Moss, each on a charge of petit theft.
Records show prosecutors filed an Opa-locka Police Department case against Richardson on Monday for 62 counts of petit theft.
Richardson also had a pending warrant case with the North Miami Police Department on another petit theft case earlier this year, records show.
Miami-Dade County Circuit Judges Christopher Benjamin and Carlos Gamez were presiding over the cases against Moss, according to court records. Circuit Judge Marcus Bach Armas was presiding over the cases against Richardson.
Opa-locka police officers and M-DCSO helicopter were also involved in a police pursuit of a stolen car on Sunday and identified the driver as Walisha Wadley, of Miami Gardens, records show.
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