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Police pursuit of intoxicated Virginia Beach man leads to multiple criminal charges
Posted on Jul 24, 2009
A multiple-city car police chase ended in a crash, and a Virginia Beach man has been charged with a number of offenses including abduction and driving under the influence.
The man, Virginia Beach resident Danny Jo Hedrick, 43, was driving a Ford Explorer when police noticed that his vehicle had a defective tail light. An officer suspected that Hedrick was under the influence of alcohol when he ran over a concrete barrier while leaving a parking lot, disregarded a red light, then increased his driving speed.
A police officer tried but was unable to stop Hedrick, however at the intersection of Ohio Street and Chesapeake Drive Hedrick stopped the Explorer to let out a 32 year old male passenger. The man told police that he had just met Hedrick when he asked for a ride, and Hedrick would not let him out of the car.
According to the man Hedrick pointed a hand gun at him while he was in the car. Police ultimately caught Hedrick when he crashed his vehicle in Newport News at the I-64 Jefferson Avenue exit.
Hedrick is being held at the Newport News City Jail and has been charged with abduction, use of a firearm, possession of a firearm by a felon, felon habitual offender, felony evading, driving under the influence, and several additional traffic offenses.
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