Northeast News
Oct. 20, 2010

The man who fled from police on residential streets in Northeast with his young daughter in the back seat Oct. 8 admitted to being on drugs and now faces resisting arrest, driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident charges.

Danyell R. Jones, 35, of Northeast, drove past police at Hardesty and St. John avenues about 2:50 p.m. and refused to stop when officers made a motion to stop and activated emergency lights and sirens.

Jones made several attempts to elude officers, speeding through the neighborhoods. He drove the wrong way down a one-way street, drove up on the sidewalk of a school that was letting children out and struck a parked car at the intersection of St. John and Hardesty. He struck a tree outside his apartment in the 300 block of North Oakley Street. His 6-year-old daughter was in the back seat during the chase.

Jones told police he had smoked crack cocaine that day and had swallowed a big rock of crack during the car chase. He said he ran from police because he did not want his daughter to see him get pulled over. He stated he knew he had put his daughter in danger.

The police report on the incident states the officers were in the area of St. John and Hardesty in the first place when the mother of Jones’ child had called them and told them Jones had their child with him while high on crack. However, Lisa Shepherd, who identified herself as the mother, said this is untrue.

She denied any custody issues, said she was not the person who called police, and she added she takes issue with the police participating in the car chase knowing her young child was in the car.