Video: Las Vegas Police Helicopter Helps Nab Suspect Spray-Painting Cars

April 24, 2025

A man accused of spray-painting cars was apprehended by Las Vegas police after he was spotted by the department's aviation unit, and officers were able to chase him down after he tried to flee on foot.

By Taylor Lane

Source Las Vegas Review-Journal

A man accused of spray-painting cars was apprehended by Las Vegas police Wednesday after he was spotted by the department's aviation unit, and officers were able to chase him down after he tried to flee on foot.

Las Vegas police arrested a man suspected of spray-painting cars after a brief morning chase in the west valley Wednesday with help from an eye in the sky.

The man was reported spraying cars near Decatur Boulevard and Harmon Avenue when the Metropolitan Police Department’s AIR2 helicopter picked up the call from police dispatch, police said.

Video shows the man attempting to flee police, but after a brief chase through a Home Depot parking lot, he is eventually taken into custody near a Jack in the Box on the corner of Decatur and Tropicana Avenue.

“It’s tough to outrun the helicopter and officers,” the Metropolitan Police Department said in a post on X.

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