Police Chase Fleeing Duo On Horseback

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Police Chase Fleeing Duo on Horseback

AP

Posted: 2007-07-23 22:49:56

CULPEPER, Va. (AP) - It was like a scene out of an old Western, with lawmen in hot pursuit of alleged outlaws on horseback. Only this time the pursuers were in police cruisers, and the chase was through a modern suburban neighborhood. Officers got their man - and their woman - when the fleeing riders fell off their mounts.

 

It all started about 10:30 p.m. Saturday when several people confronted a man they claimed was urinating against the side of a Culpeper convenience store, according to town police Sgt. Scott Jenkins. They asked the man to stop because children were present, Jenkins said.

 

Witnesses told police the man cursed those who complained, went into the store, then came out and mounted his horse and charged toward the group. One man retreated behind a propane tank, Jenkins said.

 

When Officer Jeff Dodson arrived, witnesses told him the man and a woman had departed on horseback. When Dodson found them on a subdivision street, the riders fled through a backyard, Jenkins said.

 

But they didn't get far. The man apparently didn't see a utility pole guy wire in the dark. He rode into the wire, which knocked him to the ground. The woman also fell off her horse.

 

Eric Kyff, 39, and Lauren Allen, 27, were charged with riding a horse on a highway after dark without proper reflective material, being drunk in public and obstruction of justice. Kyff also was charged with attempted unlawful wounding.

 

Kyff was held on a $2,500 bond while Allen was released.

 

It wasn't the riders' first clash with the law. At about midnight May 24, Kyff and Allen - again on horseback - were arrested on public drunkeness and railroad track trespassing charges. Allen paid a $25 fine and Kyff a $100 fine, according to court documents.

 

 

:) Billy The Kid never had to worry about those darn utility pole wires........