A 68-year-old man is in custody after a slow-speed chase through Knoxville Wednesday afternoon.
Jimmy Key was charged with driving under the influence and evading arrest after the Knoxville Police Department said they slowly chased him down Interstates 40 and 640.
According to KPD, officers initially responded around 4:10 p.m. to a driver passed out behind the wheel on Rutledge Pike. Calls stated that a vehicle was parked in the middle of the road near the Kenjo, police said. The caller told dispatch the person had left the scene, apparently with a flat tire.
"Officers responded to the call and made contact with the vehicle, a late 90s model Chevy minivan, around Magnolia Avenue and Milligan Street," KPD spokesperson Scott Erland said in a release. "Officers observed that the vehicle was swerving and had a flat tire, and attempted to initiate a traffic stop near Cherry Street and I-40 East."
When officers tried to stop it around 4:22 p.m., they said the driver refused to pull over and was traveling roughly 30 miles per hour in the right lane of I-40.
Officers said they were able to deploy stopsticks between the Rutledge Pike exit and I-640 interchange -- and the vehicle eventually came to a stop before the Millertown exit.
Officers took the Key into custody at 4:38 p.m. without incident for a possible DUI and felony fleeing. He has been booked into the Knox County Detention Center.
No one was injured.
