STAFF REPORT
Glasgow News 1
Two people from Glasgow were arrested and charged after a allegedly leading police on a high-speed pursuit into Cave City on Sunday night.
According to a Glasgow Police Department press release, officer John Dubarry observed a vehicle behind the Big Lots Shopping Center, which is off Happy Valley Road across from the police station, before it left the area and traveled west on Happy Valley Road on Sunday at about 11 p.m.
The vehicle was driving recklessly and began speeding to avoid officers, according to the press release. Dubarry initiated a traffic stop and the vehicle continued driving at approximately 100 mph while passing other vehicles.
The vehicle continued into Cave City, where it overheated and stopped.
The officer identified the driver as 31-year-old Johnathan Tyler Meadows of Glasgow. The passenger was identified as 41-year-old Jacqueline Meadows of Glasgow.
Johnathan Meadows was given standardized field sobriety tests and Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement tests, according to the release, and was found to be under the influence. He also allegedly possessed a black plastic marker cap that contained suspected residual methamphetamine.
Jacqueline Meadows allegedly told the officer that she and Jonathan had smoked methamphetamine at approximately 10 p.m. She allegedly told the officer that she asked Jonathan “to stop the vehicle and let her out.”
She said “she was screaming and throwing things inside the vehicle to get him to stop.”
Johnathan Meadows was arrested and charged with speeding 26 mph over the limit, first-degree fleeing or evading police (motor vehicle), reckless driving, possession of drug paraphernalia, first-degree operating a motor vehicle under the influence of a controlled substance, first-degree unlawful imprisonment, failure of a non-owner operator to maintain required insurance (first offense), no operator’s license and first-degree wanton endangerment (police officer).
Jacqueline Meadows was arrested and only charged with public intoxication – controlled substance (excludes alcohol).
Both were lodged at the Barren County Detention Center.
Jacqueline Meadows has since been released. Jonathan Meadows remained in jail on a $10,000 cash bond as of Monday morning.
The investigation is ongoing.
