Accomack County deputy BUSTED!!

An Accomack County deputy sheriff has been disciplined after a video of him speeding on Route 13 appeared on YouTube earlier this month.


The video on the popular Web site -- which allows anyone to upload content for public viewing -- has been watched more than 11,000 times.

The profanity-laced, eight-minute video, made by a 20-year-old male identified as Chura46 and posted May 5 on the Internet site, apparently was filmed from the interior of his Honda Civic and shows the car's speedometer reaching 100 mph briefly as he follows the deputy's cruiser down Route 13 through Melfa and Keller.

The man filming the deputy does not identify himself by name and had not been located for comment Friday. Throughout the video, he criticizes the deputy for speeding while committing his own moving violations -- including speeding and changing lanes in an intersection.

Accomack County Sheriff Larry Giddens said earlier this week that the incident happened May 1 and has been addressed internally.

The deputy, Jason Campbell, was disciplined for violating department policy by speeding, Giddens said. Campbell was not answering a call at the time and did not have his lights flashing as is required when an officer is exceeding the speed limit in the line of duty.

But it is unlikely the deputy's speed reached the 90 mph claimed by the video's maker, according to Giddens.

"He put the camera on his catch-up speed," Giddens said.

Giddens vouched for Campbell, who was hired in January.

"This guy's a good officer, but he's a young officer," he said.

He said deputies undergo more than 20 hours of classroom training in addition to field training before being put on duty.

Giddens was informed of the incident during the weekend by Campbell's supervisor. He would not comment on what disciplinary measures Campbell faced, but said speeding is not grounds for termination.

The Civic's driver repeatedly honked the car horn and tailgated Campbell after the two vehicles turned onto a secondary road in Keller. The deputy, after several minutes, pulled off the road into a dirt driveway.

But the man blocked the deputy's cruiser and continued filming as both men got out of their vehicles. He repeatedly challenged the officer to arrest him after Campbell asked the man to move his car.

"I want to be arrested," the man said. At the end of the clip, Campbell is seen re-entering his vehicle and driving off.

No charges were filed as a result of the chase and confrontation, Giddens said.

The video footage also shows both vehicles running a stop sign and the video maker changing lanes at a high rate of speed while going through an intersection on Route 13.


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