KAUFMAN COUNTY, Texas — A Virgina man who led police on a multi-county police pursuit in an 18-wheeler earlier this year was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison.
KAUFMAN COUNTY, Texas — A Virgina man who led police on a multi-county police pursuit in an 18-wheeler earlier this year was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison.
According to the Greenville Herald-Banner, on August 9, 2016, 60-year-old David Allen Arnold pled guilty to the charge of evading arrest in connection with the pursuit in January 2016. He was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison, according to the paper.
On January Texas Department of Public Safety troopers began tracking Arnold while he was in Kaufman County after his tractor-trailer failed to delivery a load of produce in Maryland and was reported stolen.
The pursuit traveled out of Kaufman County and through Dallas and Rockwall Counties before coming to a stop at a dead-end on an Interstate 30 frontage road in Greenville, Texas, in Hunt County. The pursuit was relatively low speed with law enforcement able to spike several of the 18-wheeler’s tires.
Arnold was in a brief standoff with police prior to his arrest in which tear gas and a K-9 unit were deployed.
