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PCSP: Pursuit from Mink Lake ends in charges

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A Westville man was arrested Saturday on multiple charges after the Porter County Sheriff’s Police said he led officers on a five-mile pursuit from the Mink Lake Golf Course in Liberty Township to the Walmart on U.S. Highway 30 in Valparaiso.

Joshua Rickey, 27, with a listed address of 4 New Durham Estate Ave., was preliminarily charged with resisting law enforcement, operating while intoxicated, domestic battery, and battery, police said.

According to police, at 4:56 p.m. officers responded to Mink Lake Golf Course at 636 N. Calumet Ave. following a report of a disturbance involving several subjects. While en route, officers were advised that one of the subjects had left the scene in a black Ford Mustang missing a rear window, a hood, and a license plate.

Sgt. Jesse Klemz was northbound on North Calumet Ave. in the area of C.R. 600E when he observed a Mustang matching that description pass him going southbound, police said. Klemz turned around and, activating his emergency lights and siren, attempted to execute a traffic stop on the vehicle but the driver, later identified as Rickey, failed to stop, police said.

Rickey “drove recklessly throughout the entire pursuit, nearly striking officers” as he continued southbound on Ind. 49, police said. Klemz finally brought the incident to an end near the Walmart on U.S. 30 when he performed a so-called “PIT” maneuver--a precision immobilization technique”--by which he was able to use his squad car to force Rickey’s Mustang abruptly sideways, causing him to come to rest in a ditch, police said.

Rickey also resisted officers while being taken into custody, police said, after which he was taken to Porter Regional Hospital for execution of a blood-draw warrant, then transported to Porter County Jail.

 

Posted 8/16/2016

 
 
 
 

 

 

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