{"id":97359,"date":"2016-03-21T16:25:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T21:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=97359"},"modified":"2016-03-22T09:02:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T14:02:48","slug":"pursuit-ends-in-creek-jmst-man-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=97359","title":{"rendered":"Watery pursuit Sunday, local man arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) A watery pursuit Sunday evening, in Jamestown led to the arrest of a Jamestown man.<\/p>\n<p>The chase involving 23 year old Richard Lawson, Jr. started in Southwest Jamestown.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-37363\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/JamestownPolice_2-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"JamestownPolice_2\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/JamestownPolice_2-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/JamestownPolice_2-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/JamestownPolice_2.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jamestown Police Chief Scott Edinger says the incident started at 11:08 p.m. Sunday when a law enforcement officer with the regional drug task force saw a vehicle being driven recklessly on 25th Street Southwest at U.S. Highway 281 South.<\/p>\n<p>A pursuit started when the officer saw the vehicle driving erratically, and the officer thought the driver might be impaired.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson purportedly took off in his vehicle and the pursuit was joined by other law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>He drove north on 281, turned west on 17th Street Southwest, then turned north on 14th Avenue Southwest.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson then drove the vehicle toward Victory Lutheran Church, and the pursuit continued into the fields north of the church. Lawson then proceeded along a dirt road down a hill toward Pipestem Creek north of the church to a camp spot, where he turned around and drove through a homeowner&#8217;s yard onto 7th Avenue Southwest.<\/p>\n<p>Edinger said Lawson left the vehicle alongside 7th Avenue Southwest and crossed Pipestem Creek into Klaus Park, where he was apprehended by Stutsman County Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputies.<\/p>\n<p>Edinger says Lawson had not been drinking and was not under the influence of drugs. He adds that Lawson only had a temporary driver&#8217;s license. Authorities are not sure why Lawson attempted to elude police.<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured during the pursuit. Some damage was noted to private property.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson appeared, Monday, in Southeast District Court on a charge of fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer, a Class B misdemeanor.<\/p>\n<p>He also appeared in Jamestown Municipal Court on a charge of reckless driving, another Class B misdemeanor. He posted bond Monday afternoon after spending Sunday night in the Stutsman County Correctional Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) A watery pursuit Sunday evening, in Jamestown led to the arrest of a Jamestown man. The chase involving 23 year old Richard Lawson, Jr. started in Southwest Jamestown. Jamestown Police Chief Scott Edinger says the incident started at 11:08 p.m. Sunday when a law enforcement officer with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97377,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97359\/revisions\/97377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}