Ark Valley News - Slow-speed I-135 chase ends with arrest

Slow-speed I-135 chase ends with arrest
By The News staff
Last Updated: November 22, 2017

A slow-speed police chase ended with an overturned stolen vehicle on the highway and a Georgia man in custody last week.

The chase started in Bel Aire and ended near the 101st Street interchange on I-135 Nov. 14.

A Bel Aire police officer reported seeing a vehicle run a stop sign in the 5400 block of East 37th North about 9 p.m. Nov. 14. As the officer pursued, the vehicle sped up to 59 mph in a 40-mph zone.

The vehicle, a gold Cadillac, traveled to K-96, where it was damaged after striking a curb and a guardrail. The vehicle slowed to about 15 mph, officers said, because of the damage.

The vehicle continued north on I-135, where officers from Kechi, Park City, Wichita, the highway patrol and Sedgwick County joined the pursuit.

Stop sticks were deployed at 85th North. About two miles farther north, a Sedgwick County sheriff's deputy used his patrol car to push the suspect's vehicle into the ditch. The driver got out of the vehicle through the window and was arrested.

Police said the driver was taken to QuikTrip in the 3500 block of North Oliver, where he could be identified as the person who stole a vehicle by the vehicle's owner.

Jake Schell was booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on charges of aggravated battery, criminal deprivation of property, felony fleeing and eluding, reckless driving and several traffic infractions.