Multi-County Semi Cab Chase Ends in Midtown

A semi truck driver is in jail in Monroe County after leading police on a low-speed chase that ended in Midtown Atlanta overnight Tuesday.

Lt. Randy Gonzalez with the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office tells Patch that the driver first fled from sheriff’s deputies in that jurisdiction before heading to Monroe County on I-75 north, where Monroe sheriff’s deputies took over the chase. The deputies were joined by Georgia state troopers and members of the Georgia Department of Public Safety’s Motor Carrier Compliance Division.

In Monroe and Henry counties, law enforcement shot out the tires of the semi and deployed stop sticks in an attempt to stop the cab, but the driver kept going on the rims of his wheels, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

Law enforcement chased the semi cab to Atlanta, where the pursuit ended near Atlantic Station. The driver, identified by the AJC as Benard Mageto Monyoncho of Robbinsdale, MN, was arrested and charged in Monroe County with aggravated assault with a motor vehicle, felony fleeing and attempting to elude, open container of alcohol violation, DUI, reckless driving, littering and not exercising due care when operating a motor vehicle. Bibb County authorities may also press charges, Gonzalez says.