Missing Richmond police car found after pursuit in Ohio

RICHMOND, Ind. (WISH) — A constabulary car missing Monday day from a promenade parking batch was recovered aboriginal successful the time successful the Sidney, Ohio, area, Richmond Police Department said.

While connected different call, officers noticed astir 1:15 p.m. Monday that a constabulary cruiser was missing from the parking batch of Richmond Square Mall. Dispatchers tracked the car done its mapping system, and a pursuit began erstwhile Ohio instrumentality enforcement authorities caught up with the missing cruiser, said a quality merchandise from Capt. Curt Leverton of Richmond Police Department.

During the pursuit, the cruiser deed different conveyance but didn’t stop. The pursuit ended erstwhile the cruiser deed a guardrail connected State Route 29 extracurricular Sidney, Ohio, the merchandise said. Ohio authorities apprehended the driver, Michael Gard, 32, of Richmond, soon aft helium fled from the crashed car.

The merchandise did not accidental what charges Gard faces successful Ohio.

No instrumentality was taken from the car, the merchandise said.

Richmond is simply a metropolis of 35,000 connected the Ohio border, astir 55 miles eastbound of Indianapolis. Sidney, Ohio, is astir 45 miles northeast of Richmond.