UPDATE: Man in High-Speed Pursuit to Face Charges
Charges include fleeing and eluding and drunken driving.
This story was originally published March 24. Editor's note: There's some foul language briefly used in the dashcam video. The 20-year-old Lakewood man charged with fleeing and eluding, and drunken driving — after leading Lakewood police on a high-speed 5-mile chase through the western suburbs last week — is set to appear in court. Mark Olszewski, faces two first-degree misdemeanor charges, fleeing and eluding and drunken driving (and two minor minor misdemeanors) after he led police on a high-speed chase last Tuesday. He's set to appear in Lakewood Municipal Court next Monday. The entire chase was caught on a dashcam video in a Lakewood police cruiser. According to Lakewood police chief Timothy Malley, the case began when officers …
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Keith
9:19 pm on Saturday, March 31, 2012
Fleeing and eluding is a misdemeanor or a felony. Not sure why this one would be charged as an M1 since he certainly qualifies under 2921.331 Failure to comply with order or signal of police officer as a felony. OVI (drunken driving as they put it) is an M1 (misdemeanor of the 1st degree)...then the 2 remaining minor misdemeanors were probably related to red lights and another traffic violation … more ›