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Last updated on Wednesday, November 15, 2017
(SHOALS) - A vehicle and foot pursuit in Martin County ended with a man behind bars.
At 10:40 a.m. police received a call from a concerned citizen regarding the department's Facebook post about a theft in their area. The post contained the description of the suspect and the vehicle involved
The citizen told police there was a truck matching the description in the Facebook post on Hickory Ridge Road.
A short time later Sergeant Keith Keller, Captain Tony Dant, and Sheriff Travis Roush arrived in the area. Sergeant Keller observed the truck on Hickory Ridge Road approaching McBride's Bluff Road. Captain Dant and Sergeant Keller proceeded in the direction of the truck. The driver pulled into a driveway and began to drive in the opposite direction.
Captain Dant and Sergeant Keller attempted to initiate a traffic stop, but the driver refused to stop. The driver proceeded to County Farm Road where Sheriff Roush was blocking the intersection. The driver was able to steer the truck around Sheriff Roush's police car and continued southwest on Hickory Ridge Road. Then turned south on State Road 450 towards Shoals.
Sergeant Keller and Captain Dant attempted to get the driver to stop before approaching US 50, but were unable to do so. At the intersection of State Road 450 and US 50, the truck turned east on US 50 and entered Shoals.
In Shoals Town limits, the truck attempted to pass an eastbound semi in a no passing zone. The driver saw a westbound semi and darted the truck in between them. The truck struck the left front of the eastbound semi and continued into the RJ's parking lot. The crash caused the right rear tire of the truck to go flat. The driver drove through pump area, and turned southeast onto US 150. As the truck passed east of Boyd Hollow Road on US 150, Sergeant Keller and Captain Dant were able to box the truck in and slow it down. The driver swerved to the left in an attempt to get around the police trucks causing the driver to lose control of the truck and spin out.
The driver got out of the truck and fled on foot, through a creek, into and around a residence. Sheriff Roush, Sergeant Keller, and Captain Dant caught up to the individual and he was arrested.
The driver was identified as 24-year-old Devan K. Nelson of Paoli. He was arrested on charges of resisting law enforcement with a vehicle, possession of meth, resisting law enforcement, theft and leaving the scene of an accident.
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