4 face charges after police chase from Illinois to Kentucky

MCCRACKEN COUNTY, Ky. (KBSI) – Four people face charges after a police chase from Illinois moved to Kentucky.

Dylan Russell faces charges of fleeing or evading police – 1st degree (motor vehicle), fleeing or evading police – 1st degree (on foot), receiving stolen property – $10k or more, wanton endangerment – 1st degree (police officer) and wanton endangerment – 1st degree.

Charles Parrish faces a charge of public intoxication – controlled substance (excludes alcohol).

Alicia Scott faces charges of fleeing or evading police – 1st degree (on foot), possession of controlled substance – 1st degree (methamphetamine), promoting contraband – 1st degree and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Anthony Thompson faces charges of fleeing or evading police – 1st degree (on foot), possession of controlled substance – 1st degree (methamphetamine) and possession of controlled substance – 3rd degree (drug unspecified).

On Thursday, January 18 around 3:29 a.m. the McCracken County Sheriff’s Office was notified of a vehicle chase in Illinois that would be entering Kentucky.

Williamson County Sheriff’s deputies in Illinois tried to stop a stolen vehicle and the driver drove away from their jurisdiction.

Deputies responded to the I-24 bridge and were notified that the vehicle, a Ford F150, was traveling east in the westbound lanes of I-24, against traffic. A McCracken County deputy stopped Westbound traffic in an effort to avoid a collision with the fleeing vehicle. While doing so, the fleeing vehicle almost struck the sheriff’s office vehicle.

Dylan Russell was later found to be the driver. The driver left the interstate and tried to evade deputies as well as officers from the Paducah Police Department and Kentucky State Police.

Russell drove the vehicle through several residential yards and fences as he drove from law enforcement, according to Chief Deputy Ryan Willuctt with the McCracken County Sheriff’s Office.

Law enforcement from different agencies tried to stop the vehicle with tire deflation devices but were unsuccessful.

Russell eventually drove into a field off of US 60 and collided with a creek bed/embankment.

Three of the four people in the vehicle ran away.

Charles Parrish, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was found in the vehicle.

One occupant, Anthony Thompson of Marion, Ill., entered an abandoned house on Harris Road in an attempt to evade law enforcement. He was found laying on the floor of a bathroom inside the house.

Alicia Scott of Pittsburgh, Ill. was found outside the same Harris Road housee and arrested.

Deputies found the driver of the vehicle, Dylan Russell, at Menard’s on US 60. The sheriff’s office was alerted to Russell’s location by an employee of Menard’s.

All the people from the vehicle appeared to be under the influence of drugs, according to deputies with the McCracken County Sheriff’s Office.

They were taken to the McCracken County Sheriff’s Office and then the McCracken County Jail.

Further charges are pending.

Illinois authorities will continue their investigation and filing criminal charges in their jurisdiction.

Deputies spent Thursday morning attempting to locate damage they say Russell caused by fleeing from law enforcement.

Anyone who has not been contacted by a deputy or other law enforcement personnel is asked to call 270-444-4719 or 270-444-8550 to have a deputy respond.