130 MPH PIT MANEUVER flips Trooper's vehicle - Suspect tackled (Arkansas State Police) #pursuit
CRAIGHEAD COUNTY (Arkansas) - After calling him a “danger to the public,” a judge ordered a Jonesboro man remain behind bars on a $75,000 cash-only bond after leading police on a high-speed chase that ended with a state trooper crashing.
Craighead County District Court Judge Tommy Fowler found probable cause Friday to charge Rashun Dmon Garry with felony fleeing and second-degree battery.
Garry is accused of leading Arkansas State Police on a chase Thursday, Oct. 3, that exceeded 120 miles per hour until a trooper conducted a tactical vehicle intervention (TVI) maneuver.
According to the affidavit, the chase started after Trooper Todd Harris tried to stop Garry for driving 90 in a 60-mile-per-hour zone on Highway 18 near Leachville.
Trooper's Report:
On Thursday, October 3, 2024, at approximately 2:47 P.M., I, Corporal Todd Harris, was patrolling SH 18, near SH 119 when I
observed a tan SUV traveling westbound at a high rate of speed. I activated my radar and received a reading of 90- miles per
hour in a posted 60- miles per hour.
I turned around on the vehicle and initiated my emergency lights and siren in an attempt to conduct a traffic stop on the
suspect vehicle. The vehicle then accelerated to higher speeds and continued westbound. The vehicle continued westbound
using the center turn lane and opposing traffic lanes to gain distance with myself. At speeds of 130 mph, I was able to maintain
a visual on the fleeing vehicle for approximately 3/4 of a mile, but could not safely gain distance to get a closer look at the
vehicle or the number of occupants inside. The vehicle continued westbound still using the center turn lane and oncoming lanes
to further his distance from me.
On two separate occasions, vehicles moved into my lane forcing me to drastically reduce speed only adding to the distance
between myself and the suspect vehicle. After losing sight of the vehicle in a long curve near Lake City, I was able to see that
the vehicle was using the center turn lane because of the dust trail left between the eastbound and westbound traffic lanes. The
supporting agencies and Trooper Tanner Seal, who had taken position on the westside of Lake City, advised that the vehicle
had not passed them. Thinking that the vehicle turned from the roadway onto a side street, I advised that I no longer had sight
of the vehicle and was ceasing the high speed through the high traffic volume. I turned to attempt to locate the vehicle in or
around the area of Lake City when Trooper Tyler Drum located the vehicle, still westbound on SH 18, near the east side of
Jonesboro, at a high rate of speed.
Trooper Drum then took over as the primary unit in the pursuit and was able to successfully perform a Tactical Vehicle
Intervention, ending the pursuit. Trooper rum and the suspect vehicle left the roadway as a result of the TVI. The suspect,
identified as Rashun Garry, exited his vehicle and began to flee on foot. Garry was apprehended a short time later and was
taken into custody without further incident.
Trp. Drum was transported to St. Benard’s Medical Center in Jonesboro with facial lacerations and was later released. Garry
was transported for minor injuries and precautionary reasons to St. Benard’s Medical Center as well, but was later released and
transported to the Craighead County Detention Center.