SELLERSBURG, Ind. — A Michigan man led police in southern Indiana on a high-speed chase Wednesday and was eventually arrested.
The Indiana State Police dispatch center in Versailles received a call about 4 a.m. advising them of a dark-colored car speeding on I-65 just south of Seymour. The caller said the vehicle was speeding and did not have any lights turned on.
An ISP sergeant from the Sellersburg post responded to the area and observed the vehicle, a 2015 Ford Focus, heading southbound, and clocked the vehicle at 118 mph. According to police, the driver continued without stopping for a brief period of time and was seen passing semi-trailers on the right using the emergency lane.
As the car approached mile marker 32, the driver, identified as 55-year-old Joseph Strain, of Hudsonville, Michigan, eventually stopped. He was arrested and booked into the Scott County Jail.
Strain was charged with resisting law enforcement with a vehicle, a Level 6 felony, and reckless driving, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, and maintaining a common nuisance.
