An elusive suspect made Greenwood police work for it, but they ultimately netted an arrest following a series of chases in car and on foot early this morning.
Anthony Brewer, 31, 3016 McKennedy Drive, is charged with disorderly conduct, driving with a suspended license, resisting arrest, escape, failure to yield and DUI (third offense). He was being held this morning at the Leflore County Jail for the Sheriff’s Department, which had a domestic violence warrant on him.
A long night for police spent trying to track down Brewer began at 12:30 a.m. today at the Shell station at Mississippi 7 and Carrollton Avenue, according to an incident report.
The attendant had complained of a disorderly customer beating on the window trying to get cigarettes. Several officers responded and found a glassy-eyed Brewer, unstable on his feet, with the smell of alcohol on his breath.
Officers told him to leave the store, and Brewer walked toward his car and got in. When an officer told him to get out, he refused and said, “I’m going home,” according to the incident report.
That began a chase with speeds reaching more than 80 mph. Police followed him out Mississippi 7 to Browning Road. At New Green Grove Church of Faith, Brewer jumped from the car and ran toward a barbed-wire fence.
Unable to get over it, he turned around and faced officers. Officer Jesse Amos grabbed Brewer by his shirt and pulled him down. Brewer then stood up and threw several punches, which missed, and Amos then leaped onto Brewer’s back to bring him down.
Brewer was handcuffed but still wouldn’t comply. So Officer Edgar Gibson shocked him twice with a Taser, and Brewer was taken to the Police Department.
But that wasn’t the end of the chase.
While undergoing a DUI test, Brewer ran out the back of the station when Gibson turned his back to key information into a machine that tests blood alcohol level.
Officers followed, but Brewer had disappeared.
All officers searched the uptown area for about 15 to 20 minutes. Then Gibson saw a cell phone light up underneath a van parked behind Mike’s Hardware at Carrollton Avenue and Walthall Street.
When Gibson stopped and exited his patrol car, Brewer fled again and was lost at the corner of Walthall Street and East Henry Street.
Police searched an abandoned apartment complex on Walthall Street and found Brewer in a second-floor unit. They ordered him to get down, but instead he jumped from the second floor to the ground and bolted again.
Brewer eluded police initially, but they found him hiding behind some houses at the corner of East Henry and George streets.
Brewer was taken to the Leflore County Jail but complained of wrist pain. After being treated at the ER, he was finally delivered to jail.
• Contact Charlie Smith at csmith@gwcommonwealth.com.
