Local man jumps from moving car
A local man jumped from a moving car Saturday morning as he tried to elude police during a high-speed chase on South Chancery Street.
The suspect, Jason Biles, 20, was charged with reckless endangerment, evading arrest and driving on a suspended license after officers ran him down on foot following the morning chase.
According to police reports, McMinnville Police K-9 officer Dwaine Jennings was attempting to stop Biles for a moving violation when the suspect sped away in a 1989 Chrysler New Yorker. The chase barreled down South Chancery where the suspect was reportedly passing on double yellow lines, exceeding the speed limit and driving at times on the wrong side of the road.
At one point, Jennings said Biles swerved to miss an oncoming car and ran into a ditch line. It was while Biles was in the ditch that the suspect apparently tried to bail out of the moving car. Jennings reported seeing the suspects legs hanging out of the open driver’s door, almost becoming pinned between the car and ditch at one point.
Biles was able to leap from the car moments later after slowing down in the ditch line. A foot pursuit then followed, with Biles being caught near Brook Hollow Lane off South Chancery.
It was later discovered the vehicle belonged to another individual and that police had pursued the same car three weeks before. On that occasion, the driver also bailed from the car, but was able to elude lawmen. The owner of the car would later report the car stolen following the prior incident.