VANCEBORO, N.C. (WNCT)- A two-county high-speed chase ends with the suspect behind bars.
Capt. Joe Heckman with the Craven County Sheriff’s Office tells Nine on Your Side it started around 11:15 Wednesday night in Vanceboro.
Vanceboro Police Chief William Turner called the sheriff’s office for assistance at the Kangaroo gas station on Main St.
As a deputy arrived, the suspect, 43-year-old Edward Arthur Goodwin of Vanceboro jumped in his car and took off.
Turner and the deputy pursued the suspect down Hwy 43 toward Greenville. The deputy pulled out in front of the speeding car and tried to stop it, but Heckman says the driver went around the deputy’s car.
The chase continued into Pitt County where Pitt County deputies formed a road block and stopped Goodwin on Hwy 43 at Lester Mills Rd.
Goodwin’s in the Craven County jail under a $10,000 secured bond. He’s charged with reckless driving to endanger, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon on a law enforcement officer, injury to property, and felony speeding to elude arrest.
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