Car Chase Winds Through Three States Before Crashing Into Illinois Bean Field

Joseph Hanson. From: WGEM/Hancock County

Joseph Hanson. From: WGEM/Hancock County

HANCOCK COUNTY, Ill. (WGEM) – A car chase that started in Missouri went through another two states before ending in a crash after deputies put down a tire deflation device, according to law enforcement officials.

WGEM-TV reports that Clark County Sheriff Paul Gaudette says a deputy in his county tried to pull the driver over when he noticed the truck had no rear license plate.

The chase began eastbound on 136. He says the driver got onto the on-ramp to 27 by the Flying J, and as he was getting on the highway, he started speeding up.

Gaudette says the driver poured out a powdery substance through the rear sliding window of the truck.

The chase got up to 96 or 97 miles per hour before the truck slowed down and tried to run the deputy off the road.

That’s when Gaudette says the deputy stopped chasing the truck and followed him into Iowa towards Keokuk.

Keokuk was able to pick up the chase when the truck got to town.

Lee County Sheriff Jim Sholl says the chase didn’t last long in Lee County as the 1993 GMC pickup truck headed east on Highway 136 toward Carthage, Illinois.

When Hancock County Sheriff deputies put down a tire deflation device west of Carthage, they say the truck hit it and kept driving fast with no front tires. The truck ran off the highway on the east side of Carthage, where it went through a fence and into a bean field.

Hancock County Sheriff’s Office says deputies arrested Joseph Hanson, 44, of Keokuk, Iowa, for driving under the influence of drugs, fleeing and eluding police, driving while license revoked and possession of cannabis.

It wasn’t Hanson’s first arrest this month. Gaudette says he had been found north of Revere June 11 and charged with burglary and manufacture and distribution of meth.

Gaudette says Hanson was supposed to be serving his house arrest at a home in Iowa for the Missouri charges.