On December 1st, 2017 at 5:20 AM, Grants Pass Department of Public Safety officers were dispatched to an audible alarm at a Suzuki Motorcycle Store at 1831 Rogue River Hwy.
As officers were arriving, they were given information that two subjects were trying to steal a motorcycle. Officers confronted the two suspects next to a white Toyota Pickup, parked across from the Suzuki Store. The two suspects jumped into the 1996 Toyota T-1000 Pickup and drove toward the parked patrol vehicles, narrowly missing them. The fleeing truck side swiped a wooden fence before entering onto Rogue River Hwy., leaving eastbound. Officers attempted to overtake the suspects, but lost sight of the vehicle. Officers were able to get a license plate on the Toyota and determined the Toyota was a stolen vehicle from Josephine County. That incident occurred around 12:26 AM from Lake Shore Drive, Selma Oregon.
Grants Pass Detectives took over the investigation and learned that when the Toyota left the scene of the Suzuki Motorcycle store, officers located several items linking the suspects to a burglary at the Union 76 Gas Station in Selma which occurred sometime between 9:00 PM and 4:00 AM. Due to the nexus to the crimes that took place in the city, Grants Pass Department of Public Safety detectives responded to the Union 76 Gas Station in Selma to process the crime scene and contact potential witnesses and victims.
At about 9:20 AM, a report of a stolen vehicle was reported to the Josephine County Sheriff’s office, from a resident on Gordon Way, Grants Pass. Also in the area of Gordon Way was the abandoned stolen truck used in the Suzuki Motorcycle Store burglary. Taken from Gordon Way was a 2002 Toyota Tundra. Detectives processed the abandoned, stolen truck. Inside the truck, detectives located evidence further linking the truck to the burglary of the Union 76 Station in Selma.
At about 10:25 AM, Grants Pass Police officers were dispatched to an address on NE Beavilla View Dr. A resident on NE Beavilla reported two subjects forced their way into their residence. The homeowner was able to scare the two subjects and they left in an unknown vehicle, again leaving evidence linking them to the previous crimes in Selma, and Grants Pass.
At 11:50 AM, a Grants Pass Police officer located the stolen Toyota Tundra near NE Beacon Dr. and Hillcrest Ln., but lost visual of the stolen truck as it fled south on Beacon Drive. Approximately twenty minutes later, another Grants Pass Police officer located the Toyota Tundra near Hillcrest and 7th Street. Officers attempted to stop the Toyota Tundra, but it continued through the Denny’s parking lot. The suspect truck slowed to let out a passenger before taking off at a high rate of speed toward NW Vine St. Officers detained the passenger who was identified as Clyde MacDonald. Officers set up in various locations throughout the north end of Grants Pass in an attempt to locate the suspect vehicle.
Officers developed information that the fleeing suspect was Bradley Lloyd, who was believed to reside in Selma Oregon. Officers responded to various locations to intercept Lloyd. A Grants Pass Police officer observed Lloyd and the stolen truck traveling towards Redwood Hwy. on Riverbanks Rd. Coordination of marked and unmarked police units resulted in a successful tire spike by an Oregon State Police Trooper at the intersection of Redwood Hwy., and Riverbanks Rd.
Despite two tires being flattened by the spikes, Bradley Lloyd continued fleeing from pursuing Police Officers at a high rate of speed, southbound on Redwood Hwy. Lloyd lost control of the stolen truck and left the roadway in the 9600 block of Redwood Hwy. Oregon State Police Troopers, along with Grants Pass Police Officers, and Josephine County Deputies located Lloyd approximately 50 yards up a hill where he was taken into custody without further incident.
Grants Pass Department of Public Safety Detectives processed the stolen truck locating items inside that linked the suspects to another burglary on NE Bryce Court, Grants Pass. The Grants Pass Department of Public Safety would like to thank the Oregon State Police and the Josephine County Sheriff’s Office for their assistance in the apprehension of the involved suspects.