David Evans

GIRARD – A Girard man is being held without bond over the weekend on various charges after his vehicle was the subject of a lengthy police chase Thursday evening that included traveling the wrong way on busy state Routes 82 and 11.

David T. Evans, 40, 711 N. Highland Ave., Apt. 2, had his arraignment rescheduled for Monday morning after he failed a drug test Friday morning in Girard Municipal Court. Judge Jeffrey Adler ordered Evans held without bond pending arraignment on felony charges of failure to comply with order or signal of police officer and obstructing official business.

Court records show that Evans also faces misdemeanor receiving stolen property, falsification, possession of criminal tools as well as traffic charges of driving under suspension, speed, reckless operation and crossing a divided highway.

Trumbull County 911 report show that Evans failed to pull over his white Chevrolet cargo van shortly after 8 p.m. after a Vienna police officer tried to make a traffic stop after the van was found in the westbound lane of state Route 82 going eastbound.

At times, Liberty and Vienna police chased the van on Sodom Hutchings and Smith Stewart roads, and state Route 193, before getting back on Route 82 heading west in the eastbound lane.

Authorities shut down the eastbound lane with spikes, but the van managed to get on state Route 11 northbound in the southbound lane. Speeds were kept between 50 and 60 mph during the chase, the report notes.

Authorities tried to shut traffic down on Route 11, as the Ohio State Highway Patrol took over the lead in the chase, the report states.

The van got off Route 11 at state Route 5 in Cortland and managed to head east toward the city and was finally stopped as it went into yards at 50 mph. The chase ended near the Cortland Police Department, almost a half hour after it began, the report states.