DECATUR -- Two area residents led police units from four police agencies on a chase down several streets and roads, including passing through downtown Decatur, before they were eventually stopped and taken into custody on Arkansas Highway 102 just west of Decatur's city limits on Saturday afternoon.
According to a Decatur Police Department release, at approximately 3:30 p.m., officers from the Decatur Police Department received an alert message to be on the lookout for a dark gray Ford pickup truck, with the vehicle occupants wanted on felony warrants and additional drug charges in Bentonville. Officers were told that one of the suspects was possibly armed.
Officer Austin Hill, of the Decatur Police Department, saw a vehicle matching the description in the alert near Ivan Street and attempted to stop the truck, the release states. When the truck did not stop, Hill and Decatur police corporal Randy Deason gave chase. The truck traveled west of Decatur on Falling Springs Road and turned onto Shortcut Road and onto WPA Road before turning east on Falling Springs Road and back to Decatur, according to the release.
The truck traveled through the four-way stop sign at Roller Avenue and Main Street and turned west at the intersection of Arkansas Highways 59 and 102, proceeding west past the Decatur Barbecue festival at Veterans Park. The pursuit was then joined by Chief Joe Savage, Officer Andy Adams and Sgt. Ty Eggebrecht of the Decatur Police Department, as well as by units from the Benton County Sheriff's Department and the Gentry and Gravette Police Departments, according to the release.
Savage, Deason and Hill used a box maneuver to carry out a rolling roadblock and stop the truck near Ray Harrington Road outside Decatur's city limits, the release states.
The truck's occupants, identified as Christopher Charles Scott, 34, of Bentonville, and Crystal Carmen Allen, 32, of Siloam Springs, were taken into custody and transported to the Benton County Jail in connection with numerous felony and misdemeanor charges, the release states. In a subsequent inventory search of the truck, officers found what they believed to be methamphetamine, marijuana, several items of drug paraphernalia and a pistol which was determined to be a BB gun.
Both were still listed on the Benton County Jail log Monday.
General News on 08/09/2017