COVERT (WKZO-AM) — Some people just don’t learn.
Van Buren County Sheriff’s deputy Eric Calhoun spotted a driver he knew had a suspended license driving a Dodge Dakota on Wednesday night. When the driver, a 54-year-old man from Covert, spotted the patrol car, he fled north on County Road 703 at a high rate of speed.
At one point during the chase, the driver steered his pickup through a private yard, causing damage. Eventually, the driver stopped the truck and tried to flee on foot. Calhoun stopped him in his tracks with a Taser.
Calhoun already knew the driver didn’t have a valid license because he had arrested the same man on the same charge Monday.
The suspect, who has not been identified, was booked at the Van Buren County Jail on that count and several others, including driving without insurance, resisting and obstructing, malicious destruction of property and fleeing and eluding.
