Clark man faces 10 charges after early morning pursuit
Published 12:35 pm Tuesday, January 21, 2020
A Clark County man is facing nearly a dozen charges after an early morning pursuit that resulted in a wreck and left one officer injured.
Mudanar Turley, 20, of 16 Fourth St., is charged with speeding 26 miles per hour over the limit, reckless driving, disregarding a traffic light, first-degree fleeing or evading police (motor vehicle), first-degree fleeing or evading police (on foot), first-degree wanton endangerment (police officer), third-degree criminal mischief, first-degree criminal mischief, receiving stolen property $10,000 or more and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
According to a citation from the Clark County Sheriff’s Office, Deputy Kevin Flora observed a vehicle traveling 100 miles per hour in a 55-mile-per-hour zone eastbound on Lexington Road.
Flora flashed his lights at the vehicle, began a pursuit and called in for assistance from the Winchester Police Department as the vehicle traveled toward Bypass Road.
The vehicle, driven by Turley, then ran a red light at the intersection of Bypass Road and Lexington Avenue without slowing down, the citation states, and continued eastbound on Lexington Avenue at a high rate of speed.
Turley then turned left on Wainscott Avenue and into the King Brothers tow lot.
Winchester Police Officer Jon Best then observed the vehicle crash through a chainlink fence.
According to the citation, as Best was approaching the scene of the wreck, he was “clotheslined” by a wire and fell to the ground causing damage to some of his duty gear and unknown injuries to his chest and back. He was treated by EMS on the scene.
Three female passengers — two juveniles and one adult — were removed from the vehicle and said two African-American males had taken off from the scene of the accident on foot. The three back-seat passenger were not charged in the case.
The front-seat passenger, a minor, was located and apprehended. He was charged with first-degree fleeing or evading police.
Dispatch advised officers the vehicle had been reported stolen out of Fayette County.
During a search of the vehicle, officers located a spent shell casing in the front passenger floor board along with a Hi-Point firearm in the center console.
Turley was later located at his apartment in Madison County and arrested.
He is lodged in the Clark County Detention Center.
No bond had been set at press time.
Turley pleaded guilty earlier this year to a robbery involving a Facebook Marketplace sale gone wrong. He was arrested in January 2018 after he and another suspect robbed at gunpoint someone who was meeting them to purchase an iPhone.