(KAIR)--A vehicle is stolen from outside an Atchison residence, and, with police in pursuit, the suspect crosses the bridge into Missouri, where he goes off the road and is ultimately arrested. 

Police Chief Mike Wilson tells MSC News, the report was made in the morning, with an officer spotting the stolen vehicle following a quick search. “7:40 AM on Thursday morning, we had a report of a Ford Econoline van that had just been taken from outside a residence in the 1000 block of Kansas Avenue. A witness that saw the vehicle leaving told us it left that area southbound on 10th Street toward U.S. 59. We had an officer check that corridor between Main and Raven Hill Drive. Spotted this van leaving the parking lot at Walmart.”

Wilson says the officer gave pursuit when the suspect failed to stop. “The officer got behind the van, attempted to stop it, and the van then fled from the officer and continued north on 73 Highway to the area of 10th and 59 where the van went through several parking lots, eventually back out on the roadway where it went eastbound on 59. [The officer] continued to pursue the vehicle several miles into Missouri where the van then left the roadway and went into a ditch. There was nobody hurt and there was no damage to the vehicle.”

Taken into custody by Missouri authorities is 18-year-old Topeka resident Darrius Lindsay, who now awaits extradition back to Kansas. “Buchanan County was summoned to the scene. They then took him into custody. He was taken to the Buchanan County Jail. Later in the day, we received a warrant from the prosecutor's office, through District Court. That warrant has been forwarded to the Buchanan County, Missour prosecutor's office where we now attempt to get him back into Kansas.”

Lindsay is facing charges including felony theft, fleeing and eluding, speeding, and other traffic infractions.