A road pirate from Roosendaal who calls himself Muis911 and who filmed his life-threatening antics, has finally run into the lamp. The police found him and took his car. The man tore across the highway at breakneck speed, overtook the emergency lane and zigzagged through the traffic. He put the images on YouTube and Instagram without shame under his pseudonym Muis911.
It seemed only a matter of time. In February, the police already reported that they had seen someone with the pseudonym Muis911. Literally, because the motorist posted videos of himself on Instagram and YouTube.
Yet it took longer than expected before the road pirate was found. Catching someone in the act is sometimes difficult. Especially if the driver knows he is being followed. However, he eventually ran into the lamp.
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Wednesday morning it was time. The police were busy with a traffic control on the Gastelseweg in Roosendaal. Officers saw a car with a German license plate driving and decided to pull it over for a check. When the police checked who the driver was, they discovered that he is the long wanted Mouse911. He is 30 years old and is not registered anywhere in the Netherlands. Police would not say where he lives. Only that he is ‘Roosendaler’.
It also became clear that the rental car he was driving had been rented by someone else. He couldn’t prove he was allowed to drive that car. This is seen in the Road Traffic Act as ‘joyriding’, which can result in a fine with community service and a two-week prison sentence if someone makes a lot of noise.
The police seized the car and it has since been picked up by the German rental company. The Roosendaler Muis911 has not been arrested. He’s suspicious.
Since September, the police have confiscated thirteen rental cars in Roosendaal and the surrounding area. Police team Roosendaal has been investigating the German cars for much longer. For example, they already surfaced in 2019, such as at the drug boat in the port of Moerdijk. But there are also more frequent reports that such cars drive antisocially and fast.
Rapids
The investigation into the German rental cars was accelerated by the traffic accident on the Blauwhekken in Oud Gastel in which four people died in September. The suspect (27) from Roosendaal drove a German rental car.
According to the police, it is often not clear who is behind the wheel. “It seems that the cars are passing from hand to hand and are being used to stay under the radar and to be a showstopper,” the police said in a press release.
The police warn rental companies. They must check to whom they rent the cars. They also have to pick up the rental cars that have been confiscated. Remarkably, this has not yet happened with all 13 cars. For example, there is still an expensive Bentley waiting for its owner. These are a car that will cost you at least 200,000 euros new.
The mouse can also get another tail. Someone who drives around for a long time in a car with a foreign license plate must also officially pay tax. There is a good chance that the people who have been arrested now will later receive a tax letter with an invoice in it.
Police intensify hunt for racers in German rental cars