NY man held for DWI after slow-speed ATV chase

Written by News Day

Sunday, March 29, 2009

BARRE, N.Y. - An upstate New York man has been charged with drunken driving after a slow-speed chase through three towns.

The incident started Saturday night when police were sent to the town of Murray for a report of a man lying on the ground next to an all-terrain vehicle. By the time they got there the man and the ATV were gone.

Officers later spotted the man and tried to pull him over. But he refused to stop, and the officers chased him through the towns of Clarendon and Barre. At one point the man got out of his ATV and a sergeant Tasered him, but he got back in his ATV and drove off. The man struck a state police car and continued on.

The driver was finally arrested in Barre and charged with DWI and other offenses.

Source: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--slow-speedchase0329mar29,0,4189872.story

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