KINGWOOD — A Kingwood man faces multiple charges after police say he led them on a 25-mile chase in a damaged stolen truck.
Harold Ray Donovan, 43, is charged with fleeing with reckless indifference, receiving or transferring stolen property and third-offense driving on license suspended for DUI. He was in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail Wednesday in lieu of $200,000 bond.
No one was injured in the pursuit, according to police.
According to the criminal complaint by Preston Sheriff’s Lt. T.E. Mitter, he saw Donovan Tuesday traveling from Green Acres in Kingwood in a white Chevrolet Colorado that had been reported stolen. The officer said it was apparent the frame was broken on the truck, as it went sideways.
Mitter activated his lights and siren, and the truck went into the grass at the stop sign and cut off a car to enter W.Va. 7 east. Then it passed a dump truck, cutting off other vehicles in the opposite lane. Continuing to pass cars, nearly hitting some head on, the truck went onto W.Va. 72 south, Mitter wrote. On that road, the driver passed in no passing zones, cut other cars off and went into the other lane on curves.
The truck ran the stop light on 72 and cut into a drive just past Sanders Hill Road entering the town of Rowlesburg, it went through the lawn and onto the rail trail, jumped the railroad tracks and veered onto Fill Hollow Road. From there it went onto U.S. 50 west, then onto W.Va. 26, where the truck ran over spike strips before running through a fence and into a field off Herm Criss Road.
Donovan and a 16-year-old were inside the truck, which police valued at $3,410, according to the complaint. A juvenile petition was filed against the 16-year-old, police said.
