New video shows the soldier who uses the PIT maneuver to stop the false driver on Palmetto Expressway

Miami-Dade County, Fla. -The new Dashcam video of Local 10 News On Friday, the moments in which a soldier of Florida Highway Patrol quickly played after discovering a false driver in a stolen vehicle on the Palmetto Expressway in northwest of Miami-Dade last week.

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It happened around 11:30 p.m. on February 21, when soldiers said that they had seen a black SUV that drove to the east in the streets of the busy highway.

The video shows the driver, who has reversed after he has face the trooper's patrol car.

“Grube, pit, pit”, the soldier can be heard before performing a precision real estate technology to stop the SUV against a guardrail.

Additional video records the soldier, who questions the suspect, who was identified by the police as a 39-year-old John Michael Actisdano.

“What did you take?” The soldier can be heard how Actisdano is asked in the video. “How did you take it?”

“I snorted it,” replies Actisdano.

According to the authorities, Actisdano admitted to using fentanyl mixed with MDMA, generally known as “Molly”.

According to investigators, Actisdano drove a stolen SUV with a suspended driver's license. Soldiers said they also found two clear bags that contained a white powdery substance.

The police also confirmed that a dog in the back seat was taken over by a local animal control group, according to a arrest report.

According to the authorities, Actisdano was brought to the Jackson West Medical Center for evaluation before being brought to prison. They said he had refused to make a urine or blood sample available for the examination for “security reasons”.

Prison records show that he is charged with great theft of a vehicle, under which influence drives and knowingly drives with a suspended driver's license.

He stays behind bars in the Guilford Knight Correctional Center by Friday.