The pursuit started around 2:20 a.m. Monday after Springboro officers noticed a red 2010 Chevrolet HHR with a license plate listed stolen out of Tennessee that was parked at Waffle House, 885 W. Central Ave., and later saw a man and woman get inside.
An officer tried to stop the car once it left the restaurant, Police Chief Jeffrey Kruithoff said.
However, the driver later identified as Turner turned into a nearby Arby’s parking lot and then drove over a curb before eventually heading north on Interstate 75, swerving in and out of lanes, according to a Springboro Police Department incident report.
“Speeds did go over 100 mph at some points,” Kruithoff said.
The car’s top speed was listed at approximately 113 mph in the pursuit, according to the report.
During the pursuit, officers requested assistance with Stop Sticks tire deflation devices to help stop the car. Turner ran over the device on I-75 ahead of the Stanley Avenue exit in Dayton and nearly crashed into the center barrier. Both front tires were flattened, but the car continued and got off at Stanley Avenue, the report stated.
The driver finally stopped in the area of Linden and Davis avenues in Dayton after striking a curb.
Turner told police he ran from police because he had a meth pipe and that he knew he had a parole violation warrant, police said.
He said he met the woman riding with him in Kentucky on a dating app, but that he did not know the car was stolen. The woman told police she was scared and was begging for him to stop. Springboro police took her to a hotel in Warren County, the report stated.
Turner told police he was homeless and staying at different motels, supporting himself by making custom glass work. He told the court during his arraignment that he’d been staying with roommates in Middlesboro, Kentucky.
Bond was set at $50,000 and Turner remains in the Warren County Jail awaiting a March 8 preliminary hearing.
He is on parole following a 2013 conviction in Miami County for aggravated robbery, theft and forgery, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation & Correction records show.
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