Four Charlotte men accused of stealing 600 packs of Newport cigarettes from a South Carolina hold on Tuesday led police on a high-speed chase on I-85 North through Gaston County.
The chase which reached speeds of about 100 mph ended just east of Belmont just before noon when the suspects stopped the fleeing Jeep Cherokee near the weigh station on I-85 and tried to run away but officers caught up with them the Kings Mountain Police Department reported.
William Henry Jackson. 63. Anthony Bernard White. 45. Kenneth Wayne Robinson. 53 and Eugene Earl Wilburn Jr.. 39 were captured and arrested. As of Tuesday afternoon specific charges had not been filed against the suspects police reported.
The suspects are accused of stealing cigarettes from Cherokee Fireworks in Cherokee County. S. C. at about 11:30 a m.
“There was one guy distracting me while the other one came around behind the counter where
I couldn’t see him,” said Vickie Bowen a cashier at the store.
“The buzzer on the door went off. I saw him carrying something out the door but I didn’t experience what it was,” Bowen said.
Bowen said she soon discovered that two cases of cigarettes worth almost $2,000 had been stolen.
Shortly after Cleveland County dispatchers put out information on the suspects. Kings Mountain Police Cpl. Jerry Shull said he saw them on the U. S. 74 Bypass near N. C. 161.
“I was on routine patrol in Kings Mountain,” Shull said. “They came out alter in lie of me. I looked up and found them.”
The suspects would not pull over so officers with Kings Mountain. Gaston County and the Highway Patrol continued to tail them through Gaston County.
When the suspects finally stopped on the interstate. Shull said some of the suspects tried to jump the barrier wall on I-85 and run across moving lanes of traffic to get away.
“Troopers went over the wall and got them,” Shull said.
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