Vanderburgh County sheriff’s deputies were involved in a chase on Wednesday night in Evansville.
It began around 8 p.m. in the area of Forest Avenue and Sonntag Avenue on Reitz Hill. A deputy tried to stop the driver of a red Chrysler Sebring for several moving violations and for expired registration.
“At one point during the pursuit the driver of the vehicle, later identified as James Reed, slowed in order to let a passenger out of his vehicle in the area of Lemcke Avenue before continuing to flee,” the sheriff’s office noted in a press release.
Evansville Police and state troopers joined the chase as it progressed into Jacobsville. The suspect crashed his vehicle into two unoccupied cars, near Maryland Street and Read Street.
After crashing, he tried to flee on foot but surrendered after being tracked by a sheriff’s office K-9.
32-year-old James Reed has been charged with resisting law enforcement, reckless driving, leaving the scene of a collision, as well as for being a habitual traffic violator.
