---
title: "Man Livestreams Wild Police Chase Featuring a Stolen Pickup and a Vigilante Pastor"
description: "This one's really got it all, folks"
date: "2017-11-14"
modified: "2017-11-14"
authors:
  - name: "Kyle Cheromcha"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/kyle-cheromcha"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/16095/man-livestreams-wild-police-chase-featuring-a-stolen-pickup-and-a-vigilante-pastor"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "f-250"
  - "facebook live"
  - "livestream"
  - "Oklahoma"
  - "pickup"
  - "police chase"
  - "police pursuit"
---

# Man Livestreams Wild Police Chase Featuring a Stolen Pickup and a Vigilante Pastor

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Watching police chases is always a bit of a guilty pleasure. For every *Vanishing Point-*esque run [featuring a white Dodge Challenger Hellcat screaming through Texas,](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/15149/watch-this-allegedly-stolen-dodge-challenger-hellcat-rip-down-texas-highways>) there's ten more where the driver's actions put innocent lives at risk, not to mention the officers themselves. So if you're going to watch a police pursuit, you might as well get your karmic money's worth and check out this doozy from Oklahoma featuring a stolen 2006 [Ford F-250](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/10154/watch-an-idiot-do-everything-wrong-off-road-almost-destroy-ford-f250>) pickup, a gun-toting vigilante pastor, and some truly wild off-road antics—all livestreamed on Facebook by the drug-addled convict behind the wheel.

[The epic chase started](<https://www.news9.com/story/36814427/police-chase-vehicle-in-sw-okc>) when Oklahoma City police officers spotted 25-year-old Brenton Hager cruising in the stolen truck, which had been taken from a house in nearby Bridge Creek on November 3. It's not clear how long the pursuit was happening before Hager started broadcasting on [Facebook Live,](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/10921/blocks-long-nissan-skyline-burnout-leads-to-1000-ticket-on-facebook-live>) but at some point he grabbed his phone, opened the app, and [became the *second* case we've seen](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/12735/florida-man-flees-cops-in-boozy-beach-chase-while-broadcasting-on-facebook-live>) of a suspect livestreaming their own chase this year.

The 15 minute video shows Hager alternatively staring at the road, taking drags on his cigarette, and making comments about the chase, all while sirens wail and police cars are visible in the background. He talks about his family, how he doesn't want to pull over because the police will "beat his a\*\*," how much gas he has left (89 miles worth, according to the computer), and how slow other people are driving. At one point, he mocks officers as he drives around a stop stick, saying "Didn't get your spike strips out fast enough, homie."

https://youtube.com/embed/jqLJPf7ldYY

One hilarious bit happens around 12:18, where he comes to a dead end and debates ramming a barbed wire fence to get into another field. As he decides to go for it and punches the gas, you can hear his phone's GPS say *Please drive to the highlighted route* just a split second before he crashes through the wire. A few moments later, it tells him to make a U-turn. He eventually gets out to check whether the barbed wire popped any of his tires, and that's where the livestream finally ends.

However, the whole chase was simultaneously being broadcast live on local news, and it's the aerial coverage that captured the true insanity that followed. After driving through several fields, Hager makes his way back onto the suburban streets of Moore and stops at a random dead end to ditch a heavy toolbox in the bed. As he struggles with it, a local pastor named Craig Wright comes flying out of nowhere in his old [Honda Accord](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/14720/2018-honda-accord-first-drive-review-can-this-all-new-family-car-save-the-sedan>) station wagon to box in Hager's truck. Hager appears to confront him, then changes his mind as the pastor steps out, pulls out a gun, and shoots out the pickup's left rear tire before Hager manages to flee through the yet another field.

https://youtube.com/embed/sYP-zjZKEOI

That was the beginning of the end. The rest of the helicopter footage shows Hager cutting through open fields and wildlands, gradually losing control as the back tire basically spins off the rim. Officers attempt to PIT him several times, at one point nearly ramming him into a news van, but he's always able to get away—that is, until he starts backing up wildly to escape an officer with a shotgun and reverses straight into a nearby pond. After a short foot pursuit in which his pants fall down, officers subdue him with a stun gun and take him away.

https://youtube.com/embed/EMt1nHIPHMU

The two-and-a-half-hour pursuit crossed several jurisdictions as it wound from the highways of southern Oklahoma City to the open fields of the city limits. On Monday, Hager was charged with eight counts, including felony assault on a police officer with a dangerous weapon, [according to *News9.com*.](<https://www.news9.com/story/36832666/multiple-charges-filed-against-man-in-wild-metro-police-chase>) Hager's aunt told *KFOR* that her nephews actions [were "100 percent"](<https://kfor.com/2017/11/10/im-in-a-high-speed-chase-bro-high-speed-chase-suspect-broadcasts-facebook-live-during-pursuit/>) the result of his drug addiction. Officers also detained Pastor Wright briefly, but decided against charging him with anything.

https://youtube.com/embed/JgEO7Kvs4S4

## Author
Overseeing an expert staff of writers and editors from his lair in Los Angeles, Kyle shapes The Drive’s singular approach to covering the automotive industry and car culture. He’s been with the site as a writer since 2017, taking over as editor in 2019. On a daily basis, Kyle is responsible for directing The Drive's editorial news and car review content strategies, setting special coverage priorities, managing complex reporting projects, and ensuring what you read on the page meets our high internal standards for quality and trustworthiness. He is also the executive producer of The Drive's YouTube channel, which was relaunched in February 2024 to great acclaim and has accumulated over 14M new views in its first year back on the scene. He hosts a biweekly series on the channel where he breaks down fascinating and complicated stories from the automotive world.

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