Oct. 15—Police say an alleged car thief driving a stolen vehicle that intentionally hit two police cruisers in his bid to remain free last Thursday has officially been charged.
The Indianapolis man was so uncooperative after his capture at gunpoint that police delayed taking his mug shot, according to a Lebanon Police Department news statement Friday morning.
Christian D. Brown, 28, drew attention about 2:45 p.m. Thursday afternoon when an Indianapolis resident called 911 to say they were tracking their stolen Mercedes-Benz SUV remotely and that it was on the west side of Lebanon.
Police chased the SUV that hit speeds of 80 miles per hour in the 300 block of N. Lebanon Street, along Camp Street, through the Walgreen’s parking lot along Lafayette Avenue, and other streets in the area, according to dispatch records.
The driver sideswiped two civilian vehicles during the pursuit, causing minor damage, LPD reported.
He also did a U-turn and drove directly at police, striking a Boone County Sheriff’s vehicle and then rammed an LPD vehicle, LPD reported.
Sheriff’s Capt. Jeremy McClaine said he and LPD Sgt. James Newland escaped injury when Brown hit their vehicles.
The chase ended at Ind. 32 near the Interstate 65 overpass when police cruisers reportedly boxed in the fleeing vehicle. But the driver refused to exit the vehicle, so police broke in and forced him out, according to LPD.
“He was trying really hard to get away,” McClaine said. “It was a great team effort by everybody involved to get him stopped and off the streets. He put the general public in a really dangerous situation for no reason.”
An unnamed officer suffered minor cuts from broken glass, according to police radio traffic.
Brown is charged with the following felonies: three counts of criminal recklessness committed with a deadly weapon, two counts of resisting law enforcement using a vehicle, and auto theft; and misdemeanors of aggressive driving, and two counts of leaving the scene of an accident.
He was being held without bond in the Boone County Jail on Monday, pending an initial hearing in Boone Superior Court II.
Thursday’s incident was not Brown’s first encounter with police.
He was convicted of robbery in Marion County in 2018 and served 10 months in prison with the Indiana Department of Correction before his release in 2019.
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