Overview
- Deputies say 36-year-old Calvin Curtis Johnson took the unlocked BMW from Bicentennial Park in Ormond Beach after the owner left the keys in a cupholder.
- Minutes later, witnesses reported the convertible was traveling at well over 100 mph, with some estimates near 130 mph, before it crashed at U.S. 1 and Plantation Oaks Boulevard.
- Bystanders and first responders pulled the driver from the wreck and extinguished small fires around the vehicle.
- Body-camera footage released by the Volusia Sheriff’s Office records Johnson telling deputies, “I teleported,” and thanking them for saving him “from the aliens.”
- After treatment at Halifax Health, Johnson was booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail on charges of grand theft of a motor vehicle and driving with a suspended or canceled license.