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I found this in the local paper this morning:
Ford Lightning fast, but not fast enough
Late-night chase after speeding pickup ends in Mormon church's parking lot.
By KEITH EPPS
The Free Lance-Star
Date published: Wed, 04/17/2002
A 51-year-old Front Royal man was apprehended at gunpoint yesterday following a wild chase that covered parts of three area localities.
The chase started in Stafford County and ended at a church in Spotsylvania County off Bragg Road. Fredericksburg police made the arrest about 11 a.m.
Eugene E. Smith was charged in the city with two counts of attempted felonious assault and three counts of reckless driving. He also faces charges in Stafford County.
Police said Smith was driving 89 mph in a 35 mph zone when city police spotted him on Bragg Road. He had been traveling considerably faster on Interstate 95 in Stafford a short time earlier, police said.
Lt. Adam Johnson of the Fredericksburg Police Department said Smith ran at least one car off the road while fleeing from city police and at one point drove toward a city cruiser that had blocked his path.
The officer got out of the way and the chase continued. The Ford Lightning ended up in the parking lot of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a short time later with two flat tires, Johnson said.
Johnson said the driver flattened the tires while the pickup truck jumped a ditch near the church. He was trying to change the tires when armed city officers apprehended him.
"We're just lucky that somebody didn't get hurt," Johnson said. "That was a miracle in itself."
According to Maj. David Decatur of the Stafford Sheriff's Office, Smith violated a protective order yesterday by going to the home of a woman on Tacketts Mill Road in North Stafford.
Someone who knew that Smith wasn't supposed to be there alerted the Sheriff's Office, Decatur said, and a deputy spotted his black pickup truck on U.S. 17 later in the morning.
When the deputy tried to stop the vehicle, Decatur said, the suspect took off on U.S. 17 to I-95. The driver exited the interstate at Central Park in Fredericksburg and sped to Bragg Road.
Johnson said Officer Tom Worthy and Cpl. Mike Smith were heading west toward State Route 3 when the truck zipped by.
Just as they were about to turn around, Johnson said, a Stafford deputy passed them in pursuit.
The Stafford deputy turned the pursuit over to city police at that point. As the city officers were backtracking, Johnson said, they spotted a large cloud of dust on a dirt road off Bragg Road.
When they turned onto the dirt road, police said, the truck came toward them and tried to hit them. The truck then got back on Bragg Road and headed toward Route 3.
The truck again pulled out of the officers' sight, Johnson said, but a resident told police that the truck was in the back of the church parking lot. The resident said the truck had nearly run him off the road.
After taking Smith into custody, Johnson said, police noticed a sticker on his truck that touted the vehicle as being "capable of evading high-speed chases."
Ford Lightning fast, but not fast enough
Late-night chase after speeding pickup ends in Mormon church's parking lot.
By KEITH EPPS
The Free Lance-Star
Date published: Wed, 04/17/2002
A 51-year-old Front Royal man was apprehended at gunpoint yesterday following a wild chase that covered parts of three area localities.
The chase started in Stafford County and ended at a church in Spotsylvania County off Bragg Road. Fredericksburg police made the arrest about 11 a.m.
Eugene E. Smith was charged in the city with two counts of attempted felonious assault and three counts of reckless driving. He also faces charges in Stafford County.
Police said Smith was driving 89 mph in a 35 mph zone when city police spotted him on Bragg Road. He had been traveling considerably faster on Interstate 95 in Stafford a short time earlier, police said.
Lt. Adam Johnson of the Fredericksburg Police Department said Smith ran at least one car off the road while fleeing from city police and at one point drove toward a city cruiser that had blocked his path.
The officer got out of the way and the chase continued. The Ford Lightning ended up in the parking lot of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a short time later with two flat tires, Johnson said.
Johnson said the driver flattened the tires while the pickup truck jumped a ditch near the church. He was trying to change the tires when armed city officers apprehended him.
"We're just lucky that somebody didn't get hurt," Johnson said. "That was a miracle in itself."
According to Maj. David Decatur of the Stafford Sheriff's Office, Smith violated a protective order yesterday by going to the home of a woman on Tacketts Mill Road in North Stafford.
Someone who knew that Smith wasn't supposed to be there alerted the Sheriff's Office, Decatur said, and a deputy spotted his black pickup truck on U.S. 17 later in the morning.
When the deputy tried to stop the vehicle, Decatur said, the suspect took off on U.S. 17 to I-95. The driver exited the interstate at Central Park in Fredericksburg and sped to Bragg Road.
Johnson said Officer Tom Worthy and Cpl. Mike Smith were heading west toward State Route 3 when the truck zipped by.
Just as they were about to turn around, Johnson said, a Stafford deputy passed them in pursuit.
The Stafford deputy turned the pursuit over to city police at that point. As the city officers were backtracking, Johnson said, they spotted a large cloud of dust on a dirt road off Bragg Road.
When they turned onto the dirt road, police said, the truck came toward them and tried to hit them. The truck then got back on Bragg Road and headed toward Route 3.
The truck again pulled out of the officers' sight, Johnson said, but a resident told police that the truck was in the back of the church parking lot. The resident said the truck had nearly run him off the road.
After taking Smith into custody, Johnson said, police noticed a sticker on his truck that touted the vehicle as being "capable of evading high-speed chases."
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Spotsylvania??
