HOPKINSVILLE, KY (CHRISTIAN COUNTY NOW) – A Herndon man is facing multiple charges, including unlawful imprisonment, after fleeing from police with a passenger in his vehicle Thursday afternoon.
On July 9 just before 3 p.m. a driver was seen not wearing a seatbelt on Walnut Street in Hopkinsville. An officer with the Hopkinsville Police Department further observed the vehicle hit the curb of the roadway and cut off another vehicle on East 18th Street, so a traffic stop was initiated.
An arrest report from HPD says the vehicle began driving at a high rate of speed and fled toward Fort Campbell Boulevard. A failed turn resulted in the vehicle crashing into trees and into the yard of a residence at the 2000 block of Cox Mill Road, causing damage.
The driver, identified as 28-year-old Gideon Stoltzfus of Herndon, was detained by HPD along with the passenger initially. Officers determined that he was driving the vehicle with a DUI suspended license. The passenger told police that he was scared and asked Stoltzfus to stop the vehicle multiple times.
Stoltzfus was arrested and is being charged with fleeing or evading police, wanton endangerment, unlawful imprisonment and other traffic related offenses.
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