Chillicothe — The Ross County Grand Jury returned all 12 of their cases on May 23rd, but none were open for public release. They had two open cases on May 9th. From testimony in the the grand jury in one of the cases, according to the Ross County Prosecutor’s Office:
On February 24th, a police officer was running speed enforcement on East Main Street near Rose and Brownell streets. She recognized 31-year-old Preston Lee Coulter of Chillicothe driving a truck down Main Street, and knew that he had a suspended operator’s license and four active warrants for his arrest.
The officer saw that Coulter was making evasive maneuvers after he apparently saw her cruiser, and then pulled into a driveway and walked towards the house there.
The officer parked her cruiser a block away and saw Coulter re-enter the truck and drive in her direction. He again made evasive maneuvers, and after she turned on her lights and siren, he accelerated.
He drove northbound on North Rose Street, then southbound on Rose, not stopping at the stop sign at Main Street – then turned west onto Main, then northbound onto Brownell.
Coulter struck the stop sign while going the wrong way on McArthur Street, then headed east on Second Street. He parked on the wrong side of the street and fled on foot, but was soon apprehended. He said he fled because he knew he had warrants for his arrest.
For a May 9th indictment on a third-degree felony charge of failure to comply – for fleeing from four misdemeanor warrants – Coulter could get up to three years and a $10,000 fine.
