PIKEVILLE, Ky. — A Pike County teen racked up a number of felony charges after allegedly leading police on a chase early Tuesday morning.
Just before 2 a.m. Tuesday, a Pikeville Police officer spotted a vehicle matching the description of one from an earlier case turning onto Pike Street. The police report notes that the driver — later identified as Jacob Tyler Wilson, 18, of Pikeville — sped away when spotted the police car, running a stop sign and turning the wrong way down Main Street.
That prompted a chase that was soon over, when the car ran through the Huffman Avenue intersection and hit a concrete pole bordering Pikeville City Park. A Pikeville officer responding to the call slid on the wet roadway by the park and also hit a pole.
Wilson then allegedly led police on a foot case through the park and over the hillside toward Big Sandy Community and Technical College, before disappearing down Cumberland Court. He was found hiding behind a house and arrested.
Police say Wilson was manifestly under the influence and found with marijuana. They also discovered he did not have permission to use the car he had been driving. He also only had an instructional permit instead of a driver’s license.
Wilson was arrested for fleeing police, wanton endangerment of a police officer, auto theft, DUI and other charges. He is being held in the Pike County jail on a $5,000 cash bond.
