Crime & Safety

High-Speed Chase: Cops Nab Duo Driving Stolen Evergreen Park Car

Authorities arrested two Chicago men this week after they led police on a nearly 30-mile high-speed chase through Indiana in a stolen car.

EVERGREEN PARK, IL - Authorities arrested two Chicago men this week after they led police on a nearly 30-mile high-speed chase through Indiana in a vehicle that was reported stolen from Evergreen Park.

Anthony Harris, 24, and Marc Lewis, 20, were charged Wednesday with auto theft, resisting arrest, criminal recklessness, possession of marijuana and reckless driving, according to a NWI Times report.

The article says the chase started around 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, when someone called the cops about a break-in to a storage container behind a Walmart store in Portage, Indiana. Authorities tried stopping the two, who were allegedly spotted fleeing the scene in a Ford Fusion, and were, thereafter, led on a 100-mph chase.

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Harris and Lewis used the Evergreen Park vehicle to hop curbs, cruise across grass and plow through a tollway gate before striking police stop sticks that punctured their tires.

Read the full story in NWI Times.

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