The Cincinnati Enquirer
A Cincinnati man led police on a chase in Kentucky and Cincinnati early Saturday morning.
Earl Franklin York led Florence Police on a high-speed chase across the Ohio River, hitting three other vehicles before crashing on the Sixth Street Viaduct, authorities said.
Mr. York, whose age and address were unavailable Saturday, is charged with fleeing and evading under a new Kentucky law known as the "Partin law." He is the second person to be charged under the law, enacted after Covington Officer Mike Partin died in a fall from the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge on Jan. 4 while chasing a suspect. The Partin law makes fleeing from a police officer a felony under some circumstances. Mr. York also faces charges of wanton endangerment in the first degree and receiving stolen property valued at more than $300. All charges are felonies.
The chase began when Florence Officer Dan Ryan tried to stop a speeding Chrysler Cirrus on northbound Interstate 75 near U.S. 42 in Florence. Mr. York gave chase, speeding up to 100 miles per hour, police said.
Officer Ryan and Officer Charles Lee pursued the car north into Cincinnati. Mr. York struck two cars in Kentucky but continued across the Brent Spence Bridge, police said.
The Florence officers disengaged from the chase in Cincinnati but followed at a distance as Mr. York took the Sixth Street Viaduct. Mr. York, still speeding, struck another car near the Elberon exit and then crashed the Cirrus into a concrete barrier, police said. Police later determined the car was stolen from the Tradewinds Cafe in southern Kenton County shortly before the chase.
Officers from Cincinnati Police District 3 responded and took Mr. York to University Hospital, where he was treated and released into custody.
