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Chase Shuts Down Brown Co Highway

By Greg Bebermeyer

11/14/2016

Jason Thomas

(KNZA)--A chase over the weekend shut down a Brown Co Highway as authorities tried to convince a driver to surrender.

Brown County Sheriff John Merchant says deputies responded to the vicinity of K-20 and Foxtail Road at about 2:30 Saturday afternoon on a report of a suspended driver. The reporting party also advised there was a small child in the vehicle and the suspect was possibly armed.

Merchant says a Kickapoo Tribal police officer located the vehicle and made a traffic stop for a short period of time before the driver drove away.

A slow speed chase ensued for about 5 miles before the vehicle was stopped.

K-20 was shut down for about one hour while officers tried to convince the driver to surrender.

About 90 minutes after the initial call, 33-year-old Topeka resident Jason Thomas surrendered to authorities without incident.

Merchant says the child was unharmed and returned to the mother.

No weapon was located.

Thomas was booked into the Brown County Jail on charges of child endangerment, obstruction, felony fleeing and eluding and driving while license cancelled.

Assisting were the Kickapoo Tribal Police Department, Sac and Fox Tribal Police Department, Horton Police Department, a Nemaha County Sheriff’s deputy and the Kansas Highway Patrol.

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