Driver Tasered After 101 mph Car Chase, Police Say

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img src="http://o4.aolcdn.com/dims-shared/dims3/PATCH/resize/273x203/http://hss-prod.hss.aol.com/hss/storage/patch/b92b8d321b5836eb335c3a67c8f7782c" /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Police say they had to taser a Bushkill Towship man who passed them a 101 mph in a wild car chase. He may have been high on bath salts.</span><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sirens, tire spikes and a crashed car apparently weren't enough to stop an <a href="http://www.easton.patch.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #0044aa; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Easton </a>man accused of leading state police on a chase through Bushkill Township.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Instead, it took a taser to bring down Mark Nichols, who was allegedly on bath salts when he passed them doing 101 mph Wednesday night.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A police affadavit gives the following account:</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">State troopers from the Belfast barracks saw Nichols, 29, of 46 N. Sixth St., speeding south on Route 33 in Bushkill Township around 8:30 p.m.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The troopers flashed their lights and sounded their siren to get Nichols to stop, but he kept driving, getting off the highway and making his way to Route 512.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At one point, police put down tire spikes in the road to stop Nichols. The spikes chewed through three of his tires, but he kept going.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Police say Nichols lost control of his car, crashing into the deck at a home on Redstone Drive.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nichols got out of the car and began to run, and police took him down with a Taser, the affadavit says.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Police found a bag containing a substance that turned out to be methamphetamine near the scene of the crash, and said Nichols also smelled of marijuana.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Investigators eventually determined Nichols had been high on bath salts at the time of the case. He was charged with fleeing/eluding police, criminal mischief, multiple counts of driving while under the influence and numerous traffic violations.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nichols was arraigned before on-duty <a href="http://easton.patch.com/listings/district-judge-richard-yetter-8536b4f0" style="border: 0px; color: #0044aa; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">District Judge Richard Yetter</a>, and sent to <a href="http://easton.patch.com/listings/northampton-county-department-of-corrections" style="border: 0px; color: #0044aa; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Northampton County Prison</a> in lieu of $65,000 bail.</div></div>

Chase Driver Tasered After 101 mph Car Chase, Police Say

Police say they had to taser a Bushkill Towship man who passed them a 101 mph in a wild car chase. He may have been high on bath salts. Sire...

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Chase after stolen car ends in crash in Niles

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="&nbsp;" src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-5106c157/turbine/chi-crime-report-image/580/580x314" /><br /><span class="toolSet" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; text-align: center; width: 335px;"></span><br /><div class="byline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="byline bordered">By Peter Nickeas</span> <span class="titleline">Tribune reporter</span><br /><div class="date" style="color: #757575; font-family: 'Helevetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span class="timeString">2:02 a.m. CST</span><span class="dateTimeSeparator">, </span><span class="dateString">March 1, 2013</span></div></div><div class="clear" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;"></span><br /><div id="story-body-text" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">A car stolen in Burbank and spotted in downtown Chicago twice fled police before crashing into a tree in Niles, according to authorities.<br /><br />The owner of the car contacted OnStar Thursday night and a representative told her the car was in downtown Chicago, authorities said. The woman went downtown and flagged down an officer to report the theft, police said.<br /><br />Near North District officers tried to stop the car but it fled onto the Kennedy Expressway and a supervisor called off the chase, police said. The car was again spotted near Devon and Milwaukee avenues in the Norwood Park East neighborhood a short time later.<br /><br />Jefferson Park District officers tried to stop the car, which fled up Milwaukee and crashed into a tree in neighboring Niles, near the intersection with Newark Avenue.<br /><br />Two men inside, 21 and 23, were taken to hospitals and are in police custody, police said. Police said they appear to be related to the woman, though the relationship is unclear.<br /><br />One of the man is on parole, but details were not available.</div><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;">- See more at: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/park_ridge_niles/chi-stolen-car-downtown-northwest-side-chicago-crime-niles-burbank-20130228,0,542858.story#sthash.GPuk3zmH.dpuf</span></div>

Chase Chase after stolen car ends in crash in Niles

By Peter Nickeas   Tribune reporter 2:02 a.m. CST ,  March 1, 2013 A car stolen in Burbank and spotted in downtown Chicago twice fled police...

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