Wild police chase through Harrison ends with capture of wanted parolee

Speeds in excess of 100 mph.

A high-speed police chase through the streets of Harrison, which reached speeds in excess of 100 miles-per-hour,resulted in the capture of a wanted parolee. The chase ended when the fleeing suspect crashed into two cars and pursuing officers boxed him in.

According to the affidavit, law enforcement officers had received information that a wanted parolee, 43-year-old Daniel Edward Hill, was at a residence in the 800 block of North Rowland Street in Harrison. Officers set up surveillance and waited for Hill to come out of the house.

As officers were staking-out the house, a person emerged wearing a “hoodie” over his head holding his head down low. Officers at that time were unable to make positive identification of that person. The individual got into a black Mitsubishi Eclipse and took off. Officers, suspecting that the “hoodie” clad individual was Hill, followed. The driver of the Eclipse, which later turned out to be Hill, quickly reached speeds up to 65 miles-per-hour. Police pursued Hill through-out Harrison at speeds that reached in excess of 100 miles-per-hour. During the pursuit, officers attempted several “tactical vehicle interventions,” (TVI), commonly known as “PIT maneuyers”, with no success. Hill ran redlights, stop signs, travelled on the wrong side of the road, sped through a cemetery and ultimately crashed into two vehicles at the intersection of US Highway 65 and Hester Drive.

A pursuing deputy used his patrol car to disable Hill’s car and he was taken into custody.

An occupant of one of the vehicles that Hill struck was taken to the hospital by ambulance with minor injuries.

This chase, in March, went through the Maplewood Cemetery. Hill drove through a barbed-wire fence to get out of the cemetery with a pursuing officer following through the newly created exit made by Hill. The patrol car sustained damage when the officer struck a tree once outside the cemetery.

No law enforcement officials were injured.

Hill was booked into the Boone County jail on four counts of felony aggravated assault, felony fleeing in a motor vehicle and a host of other vehicle code violations. Bail was set at $35,000.

(KTLO)