– Truck crashes at Zonta Park, Driver charged – pixs

UPDATE… Jamestown (CSi) 32 year old Wesley Alan Cody, of Bismarck, was charged Wednesday in Southeast District Court in Jamestown with theft of property and fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer, Class C felonies; theft of property, a Class B misdemeanor; and false reports to law enforcement or other security officials and reckless endangerment, both Class A misdemeanors.

Cody pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charges at his initial court appearance Thursday. He is in custody in the Stutsman County Correctional Center on a $1,500 bond. The maximum sentence for a Class C felony is five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Cody is alleged to have shoplifted items from the Jamestown Wal-Mart store earlier in the week. MORE PHOTOS AT FACEBOOK

Cody is accused of leading police officers and Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office deputies on a high-speed chase through Jamestown, on Tuesday, with speeds up to 60 miles per hour on 10th Street Southeast and portions of First Avenue North, after being pursued from the Casey’s General store in Southeast Jamestown late Tuesday morning.

During the pursuit, the Bismarck Police Department informed the Jamestown Police Department that the truck was stolen from Bismarck and had stolen license plates.

Previously…

Jamestown (CSi) Law enforcement chased an allegedly stolen pick up truck through downtown Jamestown late Tuesday morning. It jumped the BNSF tracks near the Civic Center entrance and crashed into a fence along Zonta Park.

Lt. Robert Opp said the chase started after Stutsman County Communications received a call that there was a “suspicious person” in the parking lot at a business in SE Jamestown.

Officers approached the white male – later identified as 32 year-old Wesley Alan Cody – who then quickly got into a red 2001 GMC pickup truck. Opp said the truck was reported stolen out of Bismarck. No charges have been filed against Cody as of Tuesday afternoon. He said Cody is wanted on a warrant out of Wisconsin.

The man had led police and sheriff’s deputies on a chase through Jamestown that included going north on 1st Avenue.

The vehicle headed the wrong way past the Civic Center entrance, going south from 3^rd Street, then crossed 2nd St NE, left the roadway, entered the north side of Centennial Park, crossed the railroad tracks, hit the fence and stopped on the grass of Zonta Park, on the east side of the copula.

Some damage was reported to the rail tracks and a large section of fencing. (see photos)

Opp said the man then fled on foot and was apprehended in the parking lot of Otter Tail Power Co. in the 300 block of 2nd Street Southeast.

The investigation is continuing .

The Stutsman County Jail Roster lists Wesley Alan Cody being booked on 04/19/2016 for: