The Jasper County Prosecuting Attorney’s office filed driving while intoxicated and felony resisting arrest charges against a Diamond man after he led the Carthage Police Department on a chase with speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour.
Carthage Police began following Christopher Michael Preston (DOB 1980) after he left what is described in the probable cause statement as “a well-known drug house.”
After Preston ran a stop sign, according to the statement, the officer decided to pull him over, Preston continued driving, weaving in and out of multiple lanes and ignoring stop signs.
The vehicle went south on Chapel Road and then onto I-49. The vehicle reached speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour. The pursuit continued for 10 minutes until Preston pulled in at a Diamond residence and climbed out of the car, the probable cause statement said.
Preston admitted to the officer he had been smoking marijuana/THC wax less than two hours before the pursuit.
The probable cause statement notes that Preston has a lengthy criminal history including possession of a controlled substance, possession of burglary tools, possession of stolen property. domestic assault by strangulation, robbery by force, fraudulent use of a credit card/debit device and driving while suspended.
Originally appeared on The Turner Report
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