■ a pickup truck
engages a Lincoln officer
and state patrol in a
15-minute pursuit.
By Josh Funk
Senior staff writer
A man with a dragging muffler led
police on-a lengthy slow-speed chase
Wednesday night.
The chase started near 10* and Van
Dom streets after an officer saw sparks
flying from under a 1987 Chevrolet S
10 pickup and continued to N.W. 48*
Street in the Airpark neighborhood,
where police caught the driver, Lincoln
Police SgL Todd Beam said.
When Officer Doug Hruska turned
around to follow the car, he estimated
the truck was driving 50 to 55 mph.
Throughout the chase, the suspect
consistently drove 5 to 15 mph above
I
the speed limit and slowed at stop signs
before driving through them, Beam
said.
Around 9th and South streets,
Hruska caught up with die suspect and
turned on his lights, but police said the
driver refused to stop. Instead, he con
, tinued south on 9th Street to Van Dorn
Street and turned north.
Lincoln Police Chief Tom Casady
said the chase lasted 13 minutes, which
he called “rather lengthy” for a pursuit
From Van Dorn Street the suspect
led Hruska east on Capitol Parkway
West, and then south on Folsom Street
winding his way to Highway TT'and
turning north toward the Interstate.
With Hruska in tow, the suspect
exited north onto N.W. 48th Street and
started passing other cars in a no-pass
ing zone.
Hruska broke off the chase to avoid
endangering other people.
Casady said it is police procedure to
weigh the risks to the public against the
benefits of continuing a chase.
But the suspect didn’t realize he was
driving into the lion’s den, or in this
case, the State Patrol headquarters.
“If you’re ever involved in a pursuit,
don’t drive to the nearest police head
quarters,” Casady said.
The State Patrol picked up the pur
suit quickly and saw die truck drive into
a snowbank.
The 34-year-old driver exited the
truck and ran into a nearby field, where
police caught up with him, Casady said.
Police said he resisted arrest and
refused to submit to sobriety tests,
telling police he wasn’t the driver of die
truck and was out in the field to check
his traps.
The man, who lives on the 6600
block of N.W. 48* Street, was arrested
for willful reckless driving, driving
while intoxicated and with a suspended
license, failure to comply, failure to sub
mit to a chemical test and fleeing to
avoid aifest.
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Man attempts burglary
Five Lincoln Police officers got an
earful Wednesday night when arrest
ing a would-be burglar.
Just before 11:30 p.m., a neighbor
called police to a home on S. Ninth
Street because someone was tamper
ing with a window, Lincoln Police Sgt
Todd Beam said.
Two officers arrived and saw a
man prying on a window.
He refused to stop and raise his
hands, so officers physically subdued
him.
The man continued to resist, and the
officers couldn’t get him into the car
At one point the man had his legs
wrapped around one officer’s waist,
and yelled, “the cops in Texas are
tougher.”
It took five officers to get him into
the car. He was jailed on charges of
resisting arrest, failure to comply and
attempted burglary.
Lincoln businesses
receive obscene calls
A man impersonating a Lincoln
Police officer called businesses
Wednesday asking female employees
probing questions.
Three businesses - two restaurants
and a shoe store - reported calls from
this man around 5 p.m., Beam said.
The man told the businesses he
was investigating a stolen purse, and
wanted to talk to a female employee.
The conversation progressed to
more personal questions until the
employee hung up.
Casady said these were probably -,
just obscene phone calls.
Compiled by senior staff writer
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