Man arrested after chase on Beltline

Raleigh, N.C. — Authorities in Wake County arrested a man Wednesday just before noon after a brief chase along Interstate 440 West.

Jimmy Ray Morris Jr., of Havelock, 37, was charged with careless and reckless driving, speeding, driving with a revoked license, felony speeding to elude arrest and failure to stop for blue lights.

Other charges are pending, the North Carolina Highway Patrol said.

A trooper on a motorcycle tried to pull over a Pontiac Bonneville shortly after 11 a.m. and called for back-up when the driver did not stop, Trooper Kenneth Cooke said.

Troopers followed the car onto Wade Avenue and Edwards Mill Road into the Crabtree Valley Mall parking lot, where he jumped a curb and got onto Glenwood Avenue.

When the driver attempted to return to the Beltline, troopers boxed him in with their patrol cars, forcing him to stop, authorities said.

Cooke said Morris resisted arrest but that a trooper used a stun gun to help detain him. Morris was taken to a local hospital and later to the Wake County jail.

Morris is wanted in Miami on armed robbery and carjacking charges, authorities said.

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This is ONE of the reasons I don't get on the Beltline to go toward Crabtree Valley unless it is absoulutely necessary. I-440 is crazy during the weekday and some weekends with individuals who are reckless in heavy traffic and act so crazy sometimes they need to be gotten hold of by the police and the State Trooper cause it doesn't make any sense for someone to drive like that on the road causing numerous accidents in the process. Also I-40 ain't no better,cause I've seen worse.

If I want to go toward the area malls,and other places in Raleigh,I avoid the beltline and I-40 like the plague and take necessary shortcuts. Highway 70 coming out of Durham is ridicious too with these folks who basically need to go back to Driver's Ed in some kind of hurry to get to a mall that basically has nothing to offer. The guy they got off the road needed to be locked up. I wish the Durham Police Department could take good notes on how to get lowlifes off the streets like they do in Raleigh.

raysson
January 20, 2010 6:29 p.m.

nanasix - agree with your post.

Great job of the law doing trash collection once again.

p02h03
January 20, 2010 5:28 p.m.

The idiot comments left by some, should not be posted...Chases are often necessary, regardless of whether it's by a Police Dept. or State Highway Patrol. Mace and other things are out there to assist in bringing people down, vs. older methods. Be thankful we have our law enforcement, and that they protect us.

nanasix
January 20, 2010 4:59 p.m.

Good catch fellows...proud of you...one more off the street..at least his driving while license revoked won't get continue time and time again allowing him to keep on keeping on, as happens here in Carteret County. Again, good job, put him away..hope the judge doesn't allow bond, as he'll sure run. Thank God no one was hurt or killed.

nanasix
January 20, 2010 4:54 p.m.

Stun gun video! Where is it? I think the show "Cops" should just do video montages of people resisting arrest and getting the stun gun.